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Residents of a Noida’s Sector 51 flat spent an anxious two days after a cobra slipped into the false ceiling of their home and curled up inside a designer kitchen light. The tense standoff ended only after a painstaking 36-hour rescue operation by the forest department.
As per an India Today report, the drama unfolded in D Block on September 9 when the Chaudhary family noticed strange movement inside the light fixture in their kitchen. On closer inspection, they were shocked to discover a cobra coiled up inside. A short clip of the snake moving around the light quickly began circulating on social media, amplifying the alarm.
The family immediately reached out to the forest department for help. Until the experts arrived, they shut themselves off in the upper portion of the house, steering clear of the kitchen entirely. For nearly two days, the family ordered meals from outside, unwilling to risk a trip downstairs while the reptile remained hidden overhead.
Forest officials arrived with a trained snake catcher and tried multiple tactics to lure the cobra out. After more than a day and a half of careful manoeuvring, the team used a special powder designed to flush reptiles from tight spaces. The tactic worked, and the snake eventually emerged from the false ceiling, allowing the rescue team to secure it safely.
“We worked for over 36 hours before the snake came out. Once it was caught, it was taken to a safe location and released,” a Gautam Buddh Nagar Forest Department official confirmed to India Today. The cobra was subsequently released at the Okhla Bird Sanctuary.
The ordeal left the Chaudhary family shaken but relieved. After two days of confinement, they could finally step back into their kitchen without fear, grateful that the tense standoff had ended without injury to either humans or the snake.
