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TN Man Booked For Eating Dead Snake To Stay Safe Against COVID-19

In a bizarre incident, a 50-year-old man in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district has been booked for chewing a dead snake to stay safe against COVID-19. The man named Vadivelu can be seen, in a viral video, eating the snake and claiming that snakes generate immunity against coronavirus. According to police, Vadivelu was drunk at the time of the incident. Meanwhile, the forest department has slapped him with a Rs-7000 fine.

Fri, 28 May 2021 - 10:32 AM / by Nikita Thakur

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