Two prompt forest guards Subodh and Bipin of the Palamu Tiger Reserve saved a nine kilogram and six feet long python from becoming ‘a casualty of mob stoning’ at village Ladee under Barwadeeh block in Latehar district said the deputy director South division of the tiger reserve Mukesh Kumar.
Mukesh Kumar said the python was saved last evening when one sensible villager of Ladee phoned our forest guards telling them as to how this huge snake is right at the mercy of a crowd of people least bothered for it to live another day.
Subodh and Bipin rushed to Ladee village on bike, travelling a 11 kilometer journey amidst worry and stress as to what could have gone to this python by now.
Subodh speaking to this correspondent today said when we reached the field we found this hapless snake and hundred men, women and children around it.
A snake alive is seen but a dead no one likes to watch said sources. The two brought this snake in a gunny bag to their sub beat office Mundu where this python would be released in Nature. The python had not laid off its outer skin and hence it was slow to react, said Subodh.
Sources said there are too many snakes in and around Mundu some of them as dangerous as Russel viper and krait. Mukesh Kumar said our forest guards have been telling villagers not to kill the snake but to seek help from forest guards of the tiger reserve Palamu on its handling.
