All he was trying to do was save a life and calm others. Instead of receiving thanks for it, he was beaten up. So this is what happened: Residents of Marigold building in Thakur village were screaming in panic on discovering a huge snake on the society premises. A resident of the area, Sitaram Chavan, 30, who was nearby, came to help on hearing the commotion - he wanted to remove the reptile from the premises and release it into the wild, but the building's residents, hell-bent on killing it, started assaulting Chavan to stop him from rescuing the snake.

Sitaram Chavan managed to catch the snake, which the forest department released in the forest