The plane’s passenger in India caught up with 16 live snake

Indian customs officers in Mumbai said they had stopped a passenger on their arrival plane from Thailand with a tense charge of live snakes – a third of this month this month.

“Customs officers … thwarted the attempt to smuggle wildlife, 16 live snakes … they were seized from the returning passengers from Thailand,” Customs officers said. They said that he had occurred at Chattabati Chevagi International Airport in India.

The customs agency said in a statement that the passenger, who arrived on Sunday, was arrested.

Live snakes included reptiles that are often sold in pet trade, and were largely not prohibited, or with very weak poison to influence people. The agency published Pictures on social media One of the snakes discovered.

Customs staff at CSMI Airport, Mumbai Customs District-III, fill out the attempt to smuggle other wildlife, 16 live snakes, rhinoceros, white mice, Kenyan Sand Boa, Caloosk King, etc. The arrest of the passenger. More ongoing investigations. pic.twitter.com/4n4o6zk3u5

-Mombay Customs-III (@mumbaicus3) June 29, 2025

Garter Snakes, Snain California King Snake, included Rhino Rat and Kenyan Sand Boa, among others.

Customs employees are used at Mumbai Airport to seize gold, cash or smuggled hemp – but the cases of a wildlife attack have witnessed a recent increase.

In early June, customs officers stopped the smuggling of passengers Dozens of toxic snakesAlso access from Thailand. A few days later, the officers stopped another traveler Hold 100 creatures Including lizards, solar birds and tree climbing properties.

In February, customs officials at Mumbai Airport also arrested a smuggler with Five Syamang GibbonsA small monkey home to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Customs officers said that these small creatures, which were included as being at risk by the International Federation for Conservation of Nature, were “brilliantly hidden” in a plastic cage placed inside the passenger’s cart.

In November, the authorities found a passenger with a living alive A shipment of 12 turtles.

The “very disturbing” trend

The wildlife trade monitoring movement, which fights animal smuggling and wild plants, warned of a “very worrying” trend in trafficking in foreign pet trade.

She said that more than 7000 animals, dead and alive, have been seized along the Thailand-India road in the past 3.5 years.

Traffic said its analysis showed that although most cases include animals smuggled from Thailand, more than 80 % of the objections occurred in India.

“The discoveries and diversity in wildlife almost every week on its way to India are very concerned,” said Kanetha Krishnassami, Southeast Asia Director, Southeast Asian Traffic Director.

She added that many of those captured were alive, which “indicates that the bustle of exotic pets are leading trade.”