This is the moment a snake catcher in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu removed a massive cobra from a residential house.

Footage filmed on July 24 in Cuddalore shows Selvam, the snake handler carefully picking up the dangerous reptile with his bare hands and then coaxing it into a plastic bottle.

Swathy Reddy, the filmer, told Newsflare: "It was three feet long and initially immobile as it swallowed a big rat.

"Afraid or angry snake bit the handler but luckily as he was wearing shoes, so the poison didn't penetrate to his body."

The highly venomous snake was later released deep in a nearby woodland area.

Wheat cobra bites a snake catcher in South India

A wheat cobra was hiding inside a hut in Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu. Then the resident of the house informed the same to a snake handler and asked for his help. Snake handler Selvam rushed to the spot and found the wheat cobra in one corner of the hut. It was three feet long and it was immobile as it swallowed a big rat. Then the snake catcher caught it by holding its tail. Afraid or angry snake slipped from his grip and bit the snake handler in his legs. But luckily as he was wearing shoes the poison didn't penetrate to his body. When it was brought outside of the house the snake tried to regurgitate the rat that it swallowed but it was unable to do that. Then the snake handler caught the snake in a box. It was released in the nearby deep woods. Then it regurgitated the rat that it swallowed.