CBI has identified a banana planter owner in the elephant death case. (file)
New Delhi:
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday registered an FIR in connection with the alleged poaching and killing of an elephant in the Sirumugai forest range of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
The update comes in the backdrop of the death of a 30-year-old elephant due to electrocution in Sirumugai forest range in November 2020.
In the FIR, the CBI has identified a person named Murugesan as an accused in the case. The FIR states that he is the owner of a banana plantation, which had illegally erected fences to prevent wild boars from attacking his crops. According to the FIR, he electrified the fence by pulling power supply from his motor pump room.
The wildlife crime report dated October 18 last year has been attached with the FIR. The report claimed that the banana plantation by the owner attracted the elephant and it came in contact with the electrified fence and died.
In February this year, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court had asked the CBI to probe the larger nexus of middlemen, poachers and gangsters in these killings based on a report submitted by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB).
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