Customs intercepts passenger with 16 live snakes at Mumbai airport, working to send reptiles back to source country.

A man from Tamil Nadu was arrested at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport for attempting to smuggle exotic snakes hidden in his baggage.

Customs officers said they stopped a plane passenger with a wriggling cargo of live snakes, the third such seizure this month.

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Customs officers in India discovered a plane passenger attempting to carry on more than a dozen snakes in their luggage. Most of the snakes were nonvenomous or not dangerous to humans, customs ...

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Customs officers said they stopped a plane passenger with a wriggling cargo of live snakes, the third such seizure this month.

Among the reptiles were two Kenyan sand boas, five rhinoceros rat snakes, three albino snakes, two Honduran milk snakes, one California kingsnake, two garter snakes and one albino rat snake.

Many of the snakes found stowed away were nonvenomous or not dangerous to humans, including garter snakes, a coastal banded California king snake, a rhino rat snake, an albino rat snake, a Kenyan ...

The Mumbai Airport Customs officials had detected four cases this month wherein total 284 exotics wildlife animals were being smuggled to Mumbai from Bangkok. The agency officials have arrested ...

A man from Tamil Nadu was apprehended at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. He was allegedly smuggling exotic snakes into Ind ...