Two animal rights activists, complainants within the snake venom case involving YouTuber Elvish Yadav, moved Punjab and Haryana High Court in search of police safety after he allegedly gave them ‘life threats.’
In their plea, brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Gupta, claimed they received ‘threat calls,’ and pressurised to withdraw their grievance. The Guptas, residents of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, additionally talked about of their plea that they’re members of Union minister Maneka Gandhi’s People for Animals (PFA) organisation.
“We recorded Yadav’s video and got an FIR filed against him for using snake venom as drug in rave parties,” they acknowledged, referring to the case from November final 12 months.
Taking up the matter, the bench of Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi issued a discover to the Haryana authorities, and stuck April 18 as the following date of listening to.
Yadav, who courted a recent controversy just lately after selecting up a ‘fight’ with fellow YouTuber Sagar Thakur, higher often known as ‘Maxtern,’ was arrested on March 17 within the snake venom case. He has been booked below the Wildlife Protection Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPC) Act, and Sections 284 (negligent conduct associated to poison that endangers security) and 289 (negligent conduct with respect to animals) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The mentioned rave occasion was held at Noida’s sector 51. Police had recovered 9 snakes – 5 cobras, one python, two sand snakes and one rat snake – protected below Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, and a small 20 ml tube of suspected snake venom, from six accused, together with the Bigg Boss OTT Season 2 winner.
Separately, a medical report from the veterinary division had revealed that the venom glands of all 9 snakes had been lacking and so had been the fangs of eight snakes.
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