Overview
- A user-generated video shows a man picking up a large python near IT offices in the Durgam Cheruvu area and later appearing to ride away with the snake coiled on his hand.
- Mainstream reporting says the footage circulated widely online but could not be independently verified, so key details of the incident remain unconfirmed.
- Social posts claim a snake catcher later caught and relocated the python, but no authoritative source has confirmed who moved the animal or where it was released.
- Wildlife experts quoted in coverage warned that untrained handling risks injury to people and stress or harm to the snake and urged contacting authorised rescue teams.
- Posts linking the sighting to local hill removal for land sale say habitat change may be pushing reptiles into built areas and that informal snake-catcher responses are common locally.