YouTuber Elvish Yadav was questioned by Noida police for about two hours on Wednesday morning at the Sector 20 police station regarding the provision of snake venom at a party in Noida, purportedly for recreational purposes, according to senior officers. Elvish Yadav is questioned by Noida police for two hours about a snake venom case. Yadav also showed up with a group of solicitors and assisted with the investigation. Yadav was also invited to return to the investigation.
However, Noida police were not able to confront Yadav with the arrested accused as they are yet to get them on police remand from the court.
On November 3, after an animal welfare activist connected to the NGO People For Animals (PFA) approached the Sector 49 police station, six people—including YouTuber Elvish Yadav—were charged under the Wildlife (Protection) Act and Section 120A (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly supplying snake venom for a party in Noida’s Sector 51.
The five arrested were identified as Rahul Chauhan (32), Teetunath (45) and Narayan (50), both sons of Harinath, and Ravinath (45) son of Chandinath, all residents of Moharband village in south-east Delhi’s Badarpur.
Nine snakes, protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, including five cobras, one python, two sand snakes, and one rat snake, as well as a tiny 20 ml tube containing possible snake venom, were reportedly found on the five men, according to the police.
In addition to the police investigation, the veterinary department’s medical report showed that eight of the nine snakes had missing fangs and that none of the snakes had venom glands.
“Medical examination of the snakes revealed that the venom glands of nine snakes and the fangs of eight snakes were missing,” the veterinary department’s doctor Nikhil Varshney stated. The snakes were given back to the forest department, and we have filed the report for additional legal action.
Police said a notice under Section 41 (to appear before a police officer) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) has been sent to Yadav on Tuesday.
Gautam Budh Nagar, additional commissioner of police, Sureshrao A Kulkarni said, “Elvish Yadav joined the probe along with a team of lawyers on Wednesday around 12.30am and his statements were recorded based on the questionnaire prepared by a team of police.”
“Their statements will be verified with the statements of other accused and investigated. He was also questioned about a viral video of his, in which he can be seen playing with snakes, and he told us that the video was recorded somewhere else,” Kulkarni said.
“Yadav was interrogated for about two hours and asked to join the investigation again,” he said.
The additional CP further said, “The second round of questioning would depend on the remand of the other five arrested accused. After getting them on police remand, we will confront the arrested accused with Yadav for further investigation in the case.”
In response to a query regarding the reason behind the ongoing investigation’s relocation from Sector 49 to Sector 20, Kulkarni stated, “There was a communication gab with the media.” The case was first investigated by an officer with the sub-inspector rank, but since it was moved to the Sector 20 police station, it is now being investigated by an inspector rank officer, and more senior officers are on the investigation team to make sure the probe is thorough.
“We released the snakes in Surajpur wetland after receiving an order from the court,” stated Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Pramod Kumar Shrivastava.According to the medical report, the snakes were well enough to be returned to the forest.
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