Lone elephant captured

Siddapur, Mar 13: Forest department officials and staff succeeded in capturing a lone elephant that was attacking a human.

MLA and Chief Minister's Legal Advisor A.S. Ponnanna had ordered the forest department officials to capture the elephant. In this regard, the forest department officials and staff conducted an operation with the help of animals on Friday. A lone elephant attacked and killed Chaurira Ganapathi, a resident of Guhya village near Siddapur, inside a coffee plantation in broad daylight.

In this context, MLA and Chief Minister's Legal Advisor A.S. Ponnanna had instructed the forest department officials to scientifically capture and relocate the wild elephant that was causing trouble. The district chief conservator of forests had assured the public during his visit to Siddapur. In this context, under the guidance of District Chief Conservator of Forests Sonal Vrashni and Virajpet Taluk Deputy Conservator of Forests Jagannath, the operation was carried out from Friday morning with the help of six elephants, Ayyappa, Harsha, Dhananjaya, Sugreeva Prashant, Kanjan. The operation team had tracked the movement of a lone elephant attacking a human.

The operation team started the operation from Injilagere area after performing morning puja. But the lone elephant started running fast as soon as it saw the operation team. Ammatthi 

The operation team's animals followed the elephant as it moved between the coffee plantations from the area to the Palibetta area. First, Wildlife Medical Officer Dr. Ramesh and experienced sharpshooter Sub-Divisional Forest Officer Kannanda Ranjan rode the elephants Prashanth and Sugriva and roamed inside the coffee plantation. Behind them, four other elephants also followed them, along with the officers and staff of the operation team, and followed the elephant for quite some distance. But the elephant wandered from one plantation to another, making the operation team wander around in the scorching sun and getting tired.

The operation team staff informed that the elephant started running fast, distracting the operation team. The wild elephant roamed from the Ammatthi area and then went to the private institutions' buffalo paddy area. Then it settled inside the coffee plantations in the Math area of ​​Badaga-Banangala village. Then it moved to the Injilagere area. The operation team continued the operation with the use of anaesthetics to capture the elephant, which had circled the operation team for about 25 km.

In this case, the elephant was found inside the Gear More coffee plantation in Chennayyankote village near Palibet. Immediately, Shooter Ranjan used the semi-anesthetic. In this case, the wild elephant ran for a long distance and fell on the ground inside the coffee plantation. Immediately, a rope was tied to its legs and pulled it back with the help of animals. The elephant hesitated to come out of the coffee plantation. More than 120 personnel participated in the operation.

Chief Conservator of Forests Sonal, Madikeri Division DCF Abhishek, ACFs Gopal, Tasim Banu, Virajpet Zone Forest Officer Shivaram, Thitimathi Zone Forest Officer Gangadhar and Sub-Zone Forest Officers, R.R. T. and the elephant task force team personnel participated in the operation. District Congress President Dharmaja Uthappa, BJP leader Kuttanda Ajith Karumbaiah, and others were present at the spot.

-Photo report by Vasu A.N.

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