Shruti Ulfat BREAKS SILENCE on the furore about her video with a Cobra that has gone VIRAL!

Ever since a video of TV soap Jamai Raja fame actress Shruti Ulfat, playing with a Cobra went viral, the actress has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Soon, many NGOs and officials from the wildlife welfare started slamming her for illegally using the snake on her TV show Nagarjun Ek Yodha.

Reports doing the rounds suggested that the actress, along with 3 other members of the show, Nitin Solanki, Utkarsh Bali and Peatl Puri, were arrested for violation of wildlife act 1972, sections 9, 39, 48a, 51 on Thursday. While much was said and written about the entire scenario, Shruti Ulfat has finally opened up on the matter.

In an interaction with IndiaForums, Shruti debunks all the reports of her having been arrested and clarifies that she was only required to record her statement in the said case."We are not arrested; it so happened that we posted a picture with Cobra during our Nagarjuna shoot and I was not aware that time that it’s illegal to post an image like that. Otherwise, why will I do such a thing and get into a hassle unnecessarily! We are going to forest station for our statements and its been 4 months already,” she said. 

The website also contacted Pearl V Puri, who's also an accused in the same case and he said, "“Firstly, we were not arrested, we just went to forest station. It so happened that when Nagarjuna completed 100 episodes, a Cobra was brought on the set by Cobra catcher and we posed with it for a picture. We went only for giving the statements.”

Check out the videos that have gone viral here:

Forest Dept say that production manager nd actress said this snake was special effect bt forensic tests cnfrmd it was real @dna pic.twitter.com/DIfosxGhZO

— Virat A Singh (@singhvirat246) February 8, 2017

Ths is d video that got Shruti Ulfat in trouble nd angered animal activists who complained 2 forest dept @PAWSMumbai @RAWW_TWEETS @dna pic.twitter.com/FBdAwfTXFU

— Virat A Singh (@singhvirat246) February 8, 2017