Bijnor: Three individuals have actually been apprehended for supposedly attempting to smuggle 2 red sand boa snakes for sale from Pune to Moradabad.
The red sand boa is a snake noted as ‘near threatened’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and is secured under the Wildlife Protection Act.
The implicated have actually been booked under areas of the Wildlife Protection Act and sent to prison.
Following a tip-off, authorities of the forest department impersonated consumers to the implicated and snatched them throughout the exchange.
The 3 implicated have actually been recognized as Ali Mohammed, Chand Babu, and Noor Hasan.
Gyan Singh, sub-divisional forest officer, said, “Our staff posed as customers and made a deal with them. They were caught red-handed on the Noorpur- Seohara road under the Chandpur forest range after they showed us the snakes for sale.”
A medical checkup of the reptiles was likewise carried out and they were discovered to be fit. Procedures have actually been made to launch the snakes in their natural environments on Tuesday, authorities said.