Noida: The Noida Police has submitted the chargesheet within the snake venom case towards eight accused, together with YouTuber Elvish Yadav, on the District Court in Greater Noida, officers knowledgeable on Saturday.
According to deputy commissioner of police (Noida) Vidyasagar Mishra, the investigation into the case is being carried out by the Sector 20 police station group.
“After gathering enough evidence against all the accused arrested and named in the case so far, a chargesheet was submitted at the District Court in Surajpur, Greater Noida on Friday,” he stated.
The officer stated that 24 witnesses have been enlisted within the chargesheet by the police and proof has been submitted on how Yadav was in contact with the snake handlers who supplied the snake and their venom to him for events.
He stated the primary proof within the chargesheet is the report from Forensic Science Laboratory report of the snake venom that police seized from the alleged occasion.
“Comments of toxicology experts have also been submitted in the chargesheet as evidence to show how Yadav was in contact with the snake handlers who provided snakes and snake venom for the psychotropic usage for rave parties,” stated the DCP.
“Further, 24 witnesses have been enlisted in the chargesheet, as well as other physical and electronic evidence gathered by the investigating team against the accused,” he added.
According to Shakti Avasthy, deputy commissioner of police (crime), the chargesheet frames expenses towards Yadav and 7 others on allegations starting from snake smuggling, utilizing snake venom as psychotropic substance, to organising rave events.
The chargesheet is at the least 1200-pages lengthy, as a number of Supreme Court judgements have been additionally hooked up in it as proof to be used of snake venom as a psychotropic substance, the officer stated.
“The expert comments in the chargesheet also verify how snake venom is used as a psychotropic substance and hence why the charges under the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act justify,” Avasthy added.
On November 3 final yr, (Elvish) Yadav and 5 others have been booked beneath the Wildlife (Protection) Act and Section 120 B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code at Sector 49 police station for allegedly supplying snake venom to occasion revellers, allegedly for leisure use.
The 5 others, who have been arrested on November 3, have been launched on bail on November 22, 2023.
On March 17, the 26-year-old Elvish, a resident of Wazirabad village in Gurugram, was arrested by the Noida Police in reference to a probe into the case. He was despatched to 14-day judicial custody by the native Justice of the Peace courtroom.
Charges beneath the NDPS Act, and sections 284 (negligent conduct with respect to toxic substances) and 289 (negligent conduct with respect to animals) of the Indian Penal Code have been added to the present FIR by the police following a forensic report of 20ml liquid, suspected to be snake venom, recovered from the stated occasion.
On March 20, his two associates – Ishwar and Vinay Yadav – have been additionally arrested by the Noida Police in reference to the case.
Five days after being in judicial custody, Yadav was granted bail by the Gautam Budh Nagar district courtroom on March 22, on furnishing two sureties of ₹50,000 every. On March 23, Yadav, in addition to Ishwar and Vinay Yadav, have been launched from the district jail in Greater Noida’s Luksar.
