The customs officers at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in Mumbai have filed a case against a passenger travelling from Bangkok on Thai Airways flight TD317 on Saturday for smuggling 52 reptiles into the country.

The reptiles were discovered upon inspecting the passenger – who according to customs officials, was showing nervousness.

The officers found three Spider-Tailed Horned Vipers (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides), five Asian Leaf Turtles (Cyclemys dentata), and as many as 44 Indonesian Pit Vipers (Trimeresurus insularis) with the passenger.