Gujarat: Python burnt alive in Banaskantha, four persons booked

Four persons from Bodal vill in Gujarat have been booked for burning alive a python on Friday. accused circulated video of incident on social media platform TikTok. 

Forest Department is conducting an investigation in matter on basis of video. Two out of four accused in case have been identified. department conducted a raid on house of accused. However, y fled from site when y got to kw about raid. forest department has deployed five teams to trace accused.

Assistant District Forest Officer Bindu Patel said, "A video of a python being burnt alive went viral on social media. two persons who committed offence have escaped from Bodal vill. Python is a Schedule 1 animal under Forest Wildlife Protection Act. An FIR has been registered under section 9 of aforementioned Act." 

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"If crime committed by offenders is proved in court, y will n be imprisoned for 3 to 7 years and y will have to pay a fine of Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000," she ded. 

Garba with snakes

Earlier, two women and a girl were held along with two ors after a video showed m performing Garba dance with snakes in ir hands in Junagh district of Gujarat, a forest department official said on October 12. All of m were booked under Wildlife (Protection) Act and held on Thursday, official said. 

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" video that has gone viral on social media shows two women and girl holding a cobra and two n- vemous snakes while performing tritional Garba dance during recently-concluded Navratri festival," Deputy Conservator of Forests, Junagh, Sunil Berwal, said.

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event was held on October 6 at Shil vill in Junagh district, he said. "After video was brought to our tice, we probed incident. We booked five persons, including two women and a girl. or two are organiser of event and supplier of snakes.

All of m were arrested on Thursday," Berwal said. y were produced before a local court, which granted m bail, he ded. According to him, probe revealed that cobra h been defanged, while or two snakes were n- poisous.

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(With ANI inputs)