Overview
- A user-recorded video circulating online shows an unnamed man identified as a software professional picking up a large python outside IT offices near Durgam Cheruvu and later riding off on a scooter with the snake coiled on his hand.
- The footage spread widely on social platforms and was picked up by multiple news outlets but reporters could not independently verify the clip or the identity and role of the person seen handling the reptile.
- Local reporting and social posts say a snake catcher later shifted the python to a safe location, yet there is no confirmed, official account of trained wildlife rescuers being involved or of where the animal was released.
- Wildlife experts cited in coverage warned that untrained handling can injure people or stress and harm snakes, and they urged contacting trained rescuers or wildlife authorities for urban encounters with large reptiles.
- Coverage noted habitat disturbance around Durgam Cheruvu as a possible driver of wildlife entering built-up areas and said the episode highlights growing human–wildlife contact in expanding city suburbs.