Published 17:27 IST, October 12th 2019
Three women held for performing garba holding snakes
Two women and a girl were held along with two others after a video showed them performing garba dance with snakes in their hands in Junagadh district of Gujarat
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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, an forest department official said on Saturday. 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.
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.
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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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16:47 IST, October 12th 2019