My sister-in-law sent this to me via Whatsapp. What a unique situation for this lizard. But, just how could a house lizard be trapped in this manner?

Let's read this bit of information from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap]

"It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves, which is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap prepares to close, snapping shut only if another contact occurs within approximately twenty seconds of the first strike. Triggers may occur if one-tenth of the insect is within contact.^[4] The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against wasting energy by trapping objects with no nutritional value, and the plant will only begin digestion after five more stimuli to ensure it has caught a live bug worthy of consumption."

So we got it now. It was a slow-mo lizard taking its time doing something THERE and eventually the Venus flytrap had all the data-signals it needed and decided that it should clamp down on this worthy prey.

Well, how did it go and what happened to the lizard, eventually? It seemed that my sister-in-law was a bit squeamish about letting a lizard stay half-digested and who knows, attract flies, beside emitting horrid smell when it gets damp.

She pulled it out shortly after capturing this shot.