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Mumbai: On Friday, Bigg Boss OTT 2 winner and YouTuber Elvish Yadav has been granted bail in the snake venom smuggling case against him in Noida. Gautam Buddha Nagar District Court granted bail to Elvis Yadav, under NDPS Act and Wildlife Protection, Noida Police had sent Elvis Yadav to jail.
He was lodged in Luxor Jail of Gautam Buddha Nagar for the last 5 days. A court in Gautam Buddh Nagar heard his bail application and granted him bail on two sureties of Rs 50,000 each.
Elvish’s lawyer Prashant Rathi said, “The court has granted bail to him (Elvish Yadav) on two sureties of Rs 50,000 each.” On March 17, Elvish was arrested by the police along with five others and all were charged under the Wildlife (Protection) Act and Section 120A (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Elvish was sent to 14 days of judicial custody and is being interrogated by the police.Elvish, real name Siddharth Yadava, had been arrested by Noida Police on Sunday in connection with its probe into suspected use of snake venom as a recreational drug in parties. Last year, based on a complaint filed by the People For Animals (PFA) organisation, the Noida Police had raided a banquet hall located in Sector 51 and arrested five people.
The PFA in its FIR named Elvish and accused him of organising rave parties in which they invite foreigners and arrange poisonous snakes. Elvish Yadav organises rave parties in farmhouses of Delhi-NCR where he allegedly shoots videos with live snakes and uses snake venom as an intoxicant. Noida Police had imposed 29 NDPS act on Elvis Yadav. 29 NDPS act is imposed when someone is involved in a drug-related conspiracy, like drug buying and selling. Bail is not easily given to the accused booked under this act.
For the unversed, nine venomous snakes were recovered during the raid. The controversial YouTuber is embroiled in another legal case, which involves assault. Elvish and his associates had been caught on tape beating a fellow YouTuber Sagar Thakur aka Maxtern. He is to be presented before a Gurgaon court in the case on March 27.
