With the help of alert and Good Samaritan and trained wildlife experts, a red sand boa, a non-venomous snake, was rescued unhurt on Friday after it was found trapped in two metal rings in Uttam Nagar’s Tilak Enclave area here.
The rings were part of a motor pump being serviced outside a house, and the snake is suspected to have gone through them, getting itself stuck.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) sanitation worker Sanjeev, 54 who was the first to discover the snake trying to enter his home said that “The reptile was unable to move as the rings were stuck around its body and it tried to enter a drain to escape. However, it was unable to do so. It then tried to go indoors, but again, the reptile found it hard to move. Since snakes are fairly common in the fields around the nearby Najafgarh drain, I had a helpline number handy with me and I immediately alerted them.” They confined the snake to a corner till the rescuers arrived. Wasim Akram, deputy director, special projects at Wildlife SOS, said they received a call that locals had sighted a red sand boa and sent a two-member team to the spot.
“After identifying the snake, we safely lifted it and used a metal cutter to sever the motor pump rings. The snake is currently under medical observation and will soon be released back into its natural habitat in a forested area,” he said.
Akram added that the red sand boa is a non-venomous snake endemic to India, Iran, and Pakistan.