picked up the snake with a lot of love and brought it out, and the snake wrapped itself on the stick and then it started climbing upwards”. He added, “After I was bitten, local villagers screamed ‘hospital, hospital, hospital’, saying that I should be taken to a hospital quickly. There was so much commotion, the snake was a bit venomous, and it bit me again.”
The actor was given antivenom, held under surveillance for six hours, and then released. Despite a slew of scandals, Khan remains one of Bollywood’s most popular stars. He was convicted guilty of culpable murder in connection with a hit-and-run Mumbai case in 2002 that resulted in the death of a homeless guy sleeping on the street. However, the higher court almost instantly reversed his five-year jail term.
Khan was found guilty in 2018 of shooting two endangered antelopes during a hunting trip two decades back; however, he refused shooting the animals. Khan reported that the snake that bit him survived the latest encounter and has been safely returned to the wild. According to the 2020 report, around 58,000 people die of snakebites in India every year, or 160 deaths every day, between 2000 and 2019.
