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<\/picture><\/div>\nA young man was seen roaming around Haridwar with a python around his neck.<\/span><\/p>\n In a bizarre incident, a man was seen casually walking on a road in Haridwar with a 7-foot python wrapped around his neck, causing panic among commuters and tourists.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The incident reportedly took place near a railway crossing in the Khadkhadi area, close to Rajaji National Park. Two-wheelers passing through the area were forced to stop after seeing the man with the large snake.<\/p>\n The video of the incident has gone viral on social media. The man was also seen chasing people who were recording him on their mobile phones.<\/p>\n Man walks openly with python on road<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The man was reportedly carrying the large python around his neck while walking along the road.<\/p>\n Commuters and tourists became frightened after seeing the snake. Several people stopped, while a crowd gathered at the spot to record videos.<\/p>\n The incident is said to have occurred near the railway crossing in Khadkhadi, an area adjoining Rajaji National Park.<\/p>\n See the pictures-<\/strong><\/span> A young man openly walked around a road in Haridwar with a 7-foot-long python draped around his neck.<\/span><\/p>\n The young man came into the middle of the road with the python hanging around his neck and both hands spread out, forcing two-wheelers passing through to stop suddenly.<\/span><\/p>\n The young man continued walking openly on the road with the python hanging around his neck for about 10 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n Questions raised over official action<\/strong><\/p>\n After the video surfaced, questions were raised over the lack of immediate action by the Forest Department and police.<\/p>\n The video continued to circulate on social media, prompting the Forest Department to take note of the incident.<\/p>\n Forest Department forms team to investigate<\/strong><\/p>\n Haridwar DFO Swapnil Anirudh said a team had been formed to investigate the viral video.<\/p>\n The team is currently trying to verify the exact location and time of the incident and identify the man seen carrying the python.<\/p>\n The DFO said legal action would be taken as per the law based on the findings of the investigation.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A young man was seen roaming around Haridwar with a python around his neck. In a bizarre incident, a man was seen casually walking on a road in Haridwar with a 7-foot python wrapped around his neck, causing panic among commuters and tourists. The incident reportedly took place near a railway crossing in the Khadkhadi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47590,22320,47588,47585,47589,47586,47587,20623],"class_list":["post-40846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-bizarre-incident","tag-haridwar","tag-panic","tag-python","tag-rajaji-national-park","tag-snake","tag-tourists","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/09\/21\/gifmagicsite-2_1789976326.gif\")
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