An elephant stuck between 3 states… High Court orders forest department to submit health report

At present, the elephant has been kept in Mathura rehabilitation center. – (File photo)

Highlights

The elephant has been kept in the rehabilitation center of Mathura. The complainant demanded that the elephant be returned. The hearing in this case will now take place after 2 weeks.

Naiduniya Representative, Jabalpur. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Forest Department to submit a report on the health of the elephant kept in the rehabilitation center in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The division bench of Jabalpur High Court’s Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf has also directed the Principal Secretary of Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh, Chief Forest Conservator Bhopal, Divisional Forest Chhatarpur and Divisional Forest Officer of Mathura to submit their replies.

Hearing will be held in High Court after 2 weeks

The next hearing of the case has been scheduled after 2 weeks. On behalf of the petitioners Chhatarpur resident mahouts Jagdish Das Giri and Roop Singh Parihar, it has been said that the Forest Department of Rajasthan had seized the elephant from the ownership of the petitioners.

Elephant from MP caught by Rajasthan and kept in UP

This confiscated elephant was kept in a rehabilitation center under the protection of an NGO based in Mathura. The petitioners had given an application to the forest department officials demanding the return of the elephant, but the forest department officials refused to do so saying that the applicants had kept the elephant without following the permission process. Hence a petition has been filed in the High Court.