A snake rescuer, called Bhagesh Bhagwat, got the shock of his life when he witnessed a three-foot-long cobra regurgitating a plastic wrap.

Bhagwat rescued the snake after it had got stuck in the ceiling of a house in Mumbai, India. 

Bhagwat said he saw something hanging out of the snake’s mouth when he first saw the reptile.

Keeping in mind the safety of the snake, Bhagwat managed to hold its tail and brought the snake to the ground.

"I was shocked that as soon as it reached the ground, it began regurgitating something from its mouth and within seconds, I realized that it had ingested a large amount of plastic wrap that it was now throwing up," he said.

He later released the snake in the wild.

Santosh Shinde, President of S.A.R.R.P ( Spreading awareness on reptiles and rehabilitation programme ) said that he has never come across a case like this of a snake swallowing plastic. Meanwhile, Mumbai authorities have recently put a ban on plastic.

By Deepali Ravi Mishra
A snake rescuer got the shock of his life as he witnessed firsthand the adverse impact of indisposed plastic waste. Bhagesh Bhagwat, a snake rescuer found a three feet long cobra swallowing a plastic wrap that it might have mistaken it for a prey. The snake was rescued from Western suburbs In Residence area of Mumbai India.
One of the women from the home informed that she saw the tail portion hanging from the gap where the fan hangs on the roof," Bhagat said it took breaking of some part of the false ceiling that was constructed of wooden material and about one hour of frantic search to finally spot the snake. when he first spotted the snake from far, it was holding something in its mouth. Keeping in mind the safety of the snake, Bhagwat managed to hold its tail and brought the snake to the ground. "I was shocked that as soon as it reached the ground, it began regurgitating something from its mouth and within seconds, I realized that it had ingested a large amount of plastic wrap that it was now throwing up," he said, adding that he immediately even shot a video for documentation and awareness.
As per the rescuer, the house was infested with rats. Bhagwat even found signs of rats living in the false ceiling, however, how did the snake consume so much of plastic remains a mystery. Meanwhile, Bhagwat, after releasing the snake in its natural habitat in the wee hours of Tuesday , even carried out awareness drive for the locals, and informed them of the measures to avoid rat, and requested them dispose trash properly.