Customs officials at Mumbai's airport intercepted an Indian passenger attempting to smuggle 52 live exotic reptiles.

The officers found three Spider-Tailed Horned Vipers (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides), five Asian Leaf Turtles (Cyclemys ...

The Indian citizen was returning home from Thailand when he was stopped by customs officials at the Mumbai airport on Sunday ...

Customs officials were stunned when while checking a plane passenger’s luggage they found 47 venomous vipers and five Asian leaf turtles concealed within his bag. 44 of the snakes were Indonesian pit ...

Indian customs authorities in Mumbai arrested an Indian air traveler whom they suspected of concealing multiple rare species of wildlife, including venomous snakes, in his checked-in baggage.

At Mumbai's airport, customs found 48 poisonous snakes and five turtles in a passenger's luggage arriving from Thailand during a nighttime inspection. Among the dangerous species were a spider-tailed ...

MUMBAI: A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.

Mumbai Customs officers said they seized a checked bag on Sunday from a passenger arriving from Thailand. A closer inspection of the bag revealed three spider-tailed horned viper snakes, five Asian ...

Mumbai customs shares photographs of its seizures regularly. Most appear to be drugs, gold or cash-related interceptions, ...

Among these snakes were three Spider-tailed horned vipers, highly venomous and targeting only small prey like birds, as well as five Asian leaf turtles. A man at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji ...

details of whom were not released, also had three spider-tailed horned vipers – which are venomous, but usually only target small prey such as birds – as well as five Asian leaf turtles.