Cops become Snake Charmers

Cops in Utter Pradesh state of India have taken up a new job. Cops of Kakrauli police station, in Muzaffarnagar, have been reduced to mere snake charmers. For, they prefer to carry a "Been(snake charmers musical instrument)" to a baton or bullets.

They are forced to do so to avoid the poisonous snakes, that visit the police station every now and then.

Though the police officers posted at Kakrauli have tried every possible method to curb the menace, nothing has proved effective. Not even a four-feet-deep pit dug around the police station boundary wall or appointing a professional snake charmer, has rid the premise of the reptiles.

"We cannot bring our families to live with us at the police quarters constructed in the vicinity of the police station for the fear of snakes," Sirohi says.

Local villagers attribute this snake phenomenon to folklore that quite a few snakes were killed by the labourers involved in the construction of the police station about half a decade ago. But the police officers who had once held the charge of the police station insist that the menace is because of Berda jungles which are in close vicinity.

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