New Delhi: Noida Police today arrested YouTuber and Bigg Boss OTT 2 winner Elvish Yadav in the snake venom-rave party case filed against him.
Yadav was arrested after called for questioning earlier in the day. He will be presented before a court soon, informed DCP Noida Vidya Sagar Mishra.
It is to be noted here that acting on a tip-off, police had raided a banquet hall on November 3 last year in sector 51 of Noida. As many as five people including four snake charmers were arrested while nine snakes and poison were rescued during the raid.
Later, police filed a case under the Wildlife Act and initiated a probe. It was also alleged that Elvish Yadav used snakes for shooting his videos. Several videos featuring snakes have been uploaded on his YouTube channel.
Animal rights group PFA (People For Animals) headed by BJP leader Maneka Gandhi contacted Elvish Yadav hiding their identities and wanted some snakes and venoms. In course of conversation Elvish allegedly gave the number of one Rahul and asked them to contact him.
As advised by Rahul, the animal rights group went to the sector 51 banquet and informed the officials of the Noida Police and Forest Department after finding four snake charmers, nine snakes, including five cobras and 20 ml of snake poison. The police identified the arrested snake charmers as Jaikaran, Titunath, Narayan and Ravinath.
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