NAVI MUMBAI: Two youths from Nerul have been arrested by forest officials for allegedly catching an Indian rock python and performing "dangerous" stunts with them. The youths shot a video using the

for "weight training exercises" and another in which they pretended to chat with the snakes. While one youth jocularly calls himself fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the other calls himself the don's father.

The two videos they shot were posted online after which someone approached the police.

Sub-inspector B L Gavhane of Nerul police station said that two people complained on Saturday about wildlife being misused for stunts and submitted a copy of the video.

Officials of the Thane forest department took the two youths into custody on Monday. The court sent them to forest custody till Friday.