The lady, determined as Devi Chandra from Pune in an IANS report, was taking a trip in the basic compartment of the train when she was stopped at the Tatanagar station in Jharkhand.
Packages she brought with her included 28 snakes – consisting of sand boas, albino pythons, ball pythons and red pythons – apart from chameleons, beetles, and spiders.
The RPF needed to call snake catchers to take reptiles out of the bag. The overall worth of the contraband was more than Rs 50 crore.
The report priced estimate RPF in-charge S.K. Tiwari as stating that the venom from a few of the animals was being utilized in making intoxicants.
The lady supposedly admitted throughout interrogation that she was simply functioning as a provider for an individual in Nagaland in exchange for an amount of Rs 8000.
She reached Guwahati by train from Nagaland and after that reached Howrah, from where she took a train to Delhi. Raids are being held to apprehend the implicated.
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