The Border Security Force (BSF) in South Dinajpur, West Bengal has seized snake venom worth Rs. 12 crore. The BSF 41 battalion and the Kushmandi Forest Department acted on secret information on Tuesday and seized two containers containing snake venom weighing four pounds.
BSF has arrested a person named Sudeb Tigga, a resident of South Dinajpur district. It is alleged that the venom was smuggled from Bangladesh to India. The India-Bangladesh corridor is the favoured route of snake venom smugglers who take the raw product to France to be treated as a narcotic drug and the finished product is then smuggled to China. The price of one litre of snake venom is worth an astounding $235,175 in the Black Market.
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