Kind attention :
1. The Secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi.
2. The Chief Wild Life Warden, New Delhi.
3. The Commissioner of Delhi Police.
4. The Chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India, Chennai.
5. The Additional Director, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, New Delhi.

Sir / Madam,
Kindly refer to the Chief Wildlife Warden of Delhi decision about issuing ownership certificates to the snake charmers for no reasons and with out any justification. The International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India strongly opposed this decision, which is against the law of the land, why these snake charmers were allowed to keep scheduled animals protected under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 and how and from where these animals were captured, for what reasons, under which authority?. The Chief Wild Life Warden of Delhi set a very bad percident, which is against wildlife and infavour of poachers.
OIPA in India asked under the Right to Information Act, 2005 to the Chief Wild Life Warden of Delhi to supply the complete list along with their addresses - species capture and kept in captivity by these so called owners of these scheduled wild animals - offenders of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Media reports :
The Delhi Forests and Wildlife Department is inserting microchips inside snakes owned by snake charmers in order to give each snake a unique identity (ID). According to an amendment of 2000 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, privately owned endangered animals can be kept with owners only after declaring them to the state's chief wildlife warden and putting ID marks, like microchips, on them.
Last week 10 snake charmers from Delhi approached the department officials wanting to avail of this facility.
"So far we have inserted microchips in 31 snakes. On Tuesday, 12 more are in line to be identified, " said a senior Delhi forest official.
The benefit of micro-chipping the snakes is that the owners cannot sell them or replace them with other snakes upon death. "This is aimed at putting a check on illegal animal trade and poaching, " he said.
So far snakes of several varieties, such as Sand Boa, Python, Cobra, King Cobra and Rat Snake, among others, have been micro-chipped.

Hence the International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India compel to serve this open notice under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 to the Chief Wild Life Warden of Delhi to take strict legal actions against all snake charmers and rescue, rehabilitation of all captive wild animals with out any further delay.

Naresh Kadyan,
Master Trainer to the Animal Welfare Board of India - AWBI,
Representative of the International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India,
C - 38, Rose Apartment, Prashant Vihar, sector - 14, Rohini, DELHI - 110085.
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Note - Please find attached here with the first RTI Act, 2005 application dated 19-10-2005 reply from the Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi.