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There was a news of Shruti Ulfat of Jamai Raja fame being arrested and the internet could not stop but going all out commenting/slamming the actress for posting a video with a cobra! While cruelty to animals is a punishable offense, the actress came out in open officially speaking about the whole incident to an online portal Indiaforums which gives us an insight into the whole issue. She first of all DENIED being arrested as she said, “We are not arrested; it so happened that we posted a picture with Cobra during our Nagarjuna shoot and I was not aware that time that it’s illegal to post an image like that. Otherwise, why will I do such a thing and get into a hassle unnecessarily! We are going to forest station for our statements and its been 4 months already.”
Another accused in the case Pearl V Puri told the press, “Firstly, we were not arrested, we just went to forest station. It so happened that when Nagarjuna completed 100 episodes, a Cobra was brought on the set by Cobra catcher and we posed with it for a picture. We went only for giving the statements.” What do you think?
But their statements do not make much sense as Pawan Sharma, the founder of the wildlife conservation NGO RAWW told, “actress Shruti Ulfat and three others from Nagarjuna daily soap booked by Mumbai Range of Thane Territorial wing of the forest department for using Spectacled Cobra, protected species under Wildlife Protection Act, Schedule 2. They were produced in court yesterday and the court gave forest department their custody for a day to know and find the people who supplied snake to them. They will be produced in court again today. When I had assisted the Anti-Poaching Unit of the Forest Department for primary investigations at the Film City in October last year the actress made us wait for an hour with her rude staff which did not cooperate and all of them had misled the forest department stating that it was VFX /Graphics and not a real snake. However forensic reports in January this year revealed that the snake was real and the responsible people have started facing the heat. Posing for entertainment with a protected species which is one of the top venomous snakes of the country is unethical, illegal and misleading.”
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