The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, had the snakes “concealed in checked-in baggage”, Mumbai Customs said in a statement late Sunday.
The passenger, 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.
The snakes are a relatively unusual seizure in Mumbai, with customs officers more regularly posting pictures of hauls of smuggled gold, cash, cannabis or pills of suspected cocaine swallowed by passengers.
Those small creatures, listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, were “ingeniously concealed” in a plastic crate placed inside the passenger’s trolley bag, customs officers said.
In September, two passengers were arrested with five juvenile caimans, a reptile in the alligator family.
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