{"id":23907,"date":"2024-03-23T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/odisha-youtuber-and-snake-rescuer-held-for-possessing-live-cobras-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:16:29","slug":"odisha-youtuber-and-snake-rescuer-held-for-possessing-live-cobras-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/odisha-youtuber-and-snake-rescuer-held-for-possessing-live-cobras-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha YouTuber and snake rescuer held for possessing live cobras &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bhubaneswar: The wildlife wing of the Forest department today arrested a snake rescuer in Odisha\u2019s Bhadrak district for illegally possessing live cobras.<\/p>\n<p>Arrested snake rescuer Mirza Md Arif, a resident of Puruna Bazar area of Bhadrak, illegally kept two monocled cobras with him, said the wildlife wing of the Forest department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMirza Md Arif has been arrested in Bhadrak Range for illegally possessing live snakes,\u201d said the PCCF (Wildlife) in a Twitter (X) post today.<\/p>\n<p>Arif is a well-known for his skills to rescue poisonous snakes. He had rescued a quite few king cobras from various places in Bhadrak in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mirza Md Arif has been arrested in Bhadrak Range for illegally possessing live snakes.Two monocled cobras\u2026<br \/>And just think of it. He has two accounts in FB with 2.82 Millions &amp; 144 k followers respectively. Sickening.The SM platform has been requested to suspend the account. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPtMaTyOSj\">pic.twitter.com\/uPtMaTyOSj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susantananda3\/status\/1771537569743847496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several videos of Arif rescuing king cobras and other venomous snakes went viral on various social media platforms. The snake rescuer has millions of followers in his two Facebook accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after arresting Arif, the Forest department has requested the social media platform to suspend the snake rescuer\u2019s two accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has two accounts in FB with 2.82 millions and 144 k followers respectively. The SM platform has been requested to suspend the account,\u201d said the PCCF (Wildlife) in his Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, a couple from the United Kingdom had visited Odisha last year to meet Arif and observe the latter\u2019s snake rescuing skills.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: The wildlife wing of the Forest department today arrested a snake rescuer in Odisha\u2019s Bhadrak district for illegally possessing live cobras. Arrested snake rescuer Mirza Md Arif, a resident of Puruna Bazar area of Bhadrak, illegally kept two monocled cobras with him, said the wildlife wing of the Forest department. \u201cMirza Md Arif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23909,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions\/23909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}