Operations to capture rogue elephant officially begins

June 18, 2016 21:33

'Mission Madukkarai Maharaj' to capture a rogue elephant which has been creating panic among people of Madukkarai and nearby areas for the last one year officially got underway today.

Officials from the forest and animal husbandry departments, anti poaching squad and police commenced the operation today, forest department sources said.

The principal chief conservator of forests in Chennai had ordered to tranquilise and translocate the pachyderm,which had killed at least three persons and destroyed lakhs of Rupees worth agricultural produce.

Four kumkis (tamed and trained elephants) were brought from various camps in Tamil Nadu in the last one week and test trials carried out on how to take the problematic elephant to the wooden kraal and from there to lorry for translocating.

However, the officials faced a big problem as the elephant was seen with two other pachderms and moving around in different areas, including those in neighbouring Kerala.

Meanwhile officials got information that some elephants had entered a farm and destroyed banana plantations early today in Ettimadai, some five km from the place of operations.

The officials are optimistic they can capture the elephant within 78 hours, as they are sure to zero in the location of elephants in another 48 hours.

However, the question was how the rogue elephant could be identified for tranquilising it, they said.

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