‘Bring My Child Back,’ Appeals Odisha Woman Whose ‘Pet’ Wild Boar Was Seized | OTV News
Keonjhar: Call it a love for wildlife or a mom’s unrelenting love, Kuntala Kumari Penthei from Purushottampur village within the district can simply be noticed each midday within the close by jungle calling out her pet ‘Dhuda’, a wild boar.
It has been over a 12 months since Kuntala misplaced her youthful daughter to sickness. But the wild boar calf that got here working to her on the funeral of her daughter made her rethink the precedence. She might both shed tears on the premature demise or as she herself phrases it, embrace the brand new visitor in her life as God’s personal solution to fill her bosom once more with maternal love.
She selected the latter and introduced house the calf after naming it Dhuda to nurture it as certainly one of her personal. As time flew, the calf drew consideration from throughout, in the end spelling doom for Kuntala because the forest division got here trying to find it and took away Dhuda from her custody to set it free within the jungle simply seven days again.
“I had raised it from infancy. Who will not get hurt if somebody snatches away her child all of a sudden,” mentioned a weeping Kuntala.
Kuntala’s elder daughter Rajashree Penthei posed some questions on the division too. “Dhuda was with us from the beginning. It does not know how and where to search for food. And it is particularly dangerous for its survival in the wildfire that has been raging in the jungles all across Odisha,” she mentioned.
It is pertinent to say right here that the wild boars (Sus Scrofa) are protected underneath Schedule III of the Wildlife Protection Act in Odisha and thereby it’s utterly unlawful to both kill or preserve it as a pet.
Kuntala misplaced her youngster once more, however this time to the forest officers who assured her that Dhuda shall be taken care of and shall be saved underneath statement.
Speaking to OTV, the Range Officer of Telkoi forest vary, Pramod Kumar Sethi mentioned, “To become emotional is natural, but her concerns about the boar’s food are not true. They are wild creatures and they know perfectly well how to survive in the jungle.”
But for a mom who poured all her love and affection to that creature, it was at least a merciless separation that the federal government compelled on her.
“They have neither any empathy nor love for the boar,” she lamented accusing the forest officers of taking away her youngster.
(Edited By Pradeep Singh)
