By U Sudhakar Reddy The wildlife offi cials busted an inter-state sand boa snake selling racket and fined eight persons for possessing three snakes.
The racketeers were using a website, www.ricepuller.com, to sell the snakes. The state wild life anti-poaching squad forest range officer, Mr M. Raja Ramana Reddy, said, "The racket has its roots in AP, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kar- nataka and Maharashtra. We have recovered three snakes - from Bibinagar in Nalgonda and in Dilsukhnagar in the city."
The snakes were caught - from the nearby forests. The eight members were fined Rs 25,000. One of them had t impersonated a mandal rev enue officer, he said. According to the officials those fined included P.Srinivas, son of Sudarshan, an MBA graduate who was using the website.
The others are P. Bhaskar of Bibinagar, P. Hari of Banjara Hills, B. Ravi of Karmanghat, V. Yadagiri of Karmanghat, J. Mallesh of LB Nagar, S. Lakshmi Narasimha alias Ashok of Saidabad and B. Rajasekhar of Nalgonda. The wildlife officials seized a car, mobile phones and a motorcycle.
Though the sand boa has no actual market or buyers, the racketeers create a false impression that these twinheaded snakes have valuable curative properties and can be sold for crores of rupees each.
Believing this, gullible persons buy the snake, called "double engine" in their parlance, from th snake catchers in villages.
The middlemen, wh promise them the money collect thousands of rupee fees for "expenses" an examine the sand boa, bu the promised buyer neve arrives.
Even if the "buyer" arrive he "rejects" the snake stat ing that it is underweight o shows some other discrep ancy.
The racketeers were using a website, www.ricepuller.com, to sell the snakes. The state wild life anti-poaching squad forest range officer, Mr M. Raja Ramana Reddy, said, "The racket has its roots in AP, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kar- nataka and Maharashtra. We have recovered three snakes - from Bibinagar in Nalgonda and in Dilsukhnagar in the city."
The snakes were caught - from the nearby forests. The eight members were fined Rs 25,000. One of them had t impersonated a mandal rev enue officer, he said. According to the officials those fined included P.Srinivas, son of Sudarshan, an MBA graduate who was using the website.
The others are P. Bhaskar of Bibinagar, P. Hari of Banjara Hills, B. Ravi of Karmanghat, V. Yadagiri of Karmanghat, J. Mallesh of LB Nagar, S. Lakshmi Narasimha alias Ashok of Saidabad and B. Rajasekhar of Nalgonda. The wildlife officials seized a car, mobile phones and a motorcycle.
Though the sand boa has no actual market or buyers, the racketeers create a false impression that these twinheaded snakes have valuable curative properties and can be sold for crores of rupees each.
Believing this, gullible persons buy the snake, called "double engine" in their parlance, from th snake catchers in villages.
The middlemen, wh promise them the money collect thousands of rupee fees for "expenses" an examine the sand boa, bu the promised buyer neve arrives.
Even if the "buyer" arrive he "rejects" the snake stat ing that it is underweight o shows some other discrep ancy.
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