The snakes discovered inside the bags field. — Courtesy: Twitter
India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized 9 pythons and two corn snakes from a passenger arrived at Mumbai airport.
According to an official, he was intercepted at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai, based mostly on intelligence enter. The passenger was travelling from Bangkok.
Upon examination of the check-in baggage of the passenger, 9 ball pythons (Python regius) and two corn snakes (Pantherophis guttatus) had been discovered hid inside biscuit and cake packets. The snakes had been seized below the Customs Act 1962.
The service of those unique species has been arrested.
Further investigations and searches are underway, the official stated.