DRI recovers two Indian Red Sand Boa snakes in Warangal, hands suspect over to forest officials

Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Hyderabad zonal unit, recovered seized 2 unrecorded Indian Red Sand Boa snakes and apprehended a idiosyncratic during an cognition successful Warangal connected Sunday (May 17, 2026) aft receiving accusation astir alleged amerciable wildlife trade.

Officials said circumstantial quality inputs indicated that a idiosyncratic was attempting to merchantability unrecorded snakes successful the grey marketplace successful Warangal.

Based connected the information, the DRI conducted an undercover decoy cognition connected May 17 and intercepted the fishy astatine the identified location. During the search, officials recovered 2 unrecorded Indian Red Sand Boa snakes, scientifically known arsenic Eryx johnii, from a container carried by the suspect.

The taxon is listed nether Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, which prohibits its possession and trade. Following the seizure, the snakes, packing worldly and the apprehended idiosyncratic were handed implicit to the Forest Range Officer, Warangal Range, for further enactment nether the Wildlife (Protection) Act.

The Forest officials were expected to proceed the probe to ascertain whether the accused was portion of a wider amerciable wildlife trafficking network.