2 held for covering up jumbo’s death in Nilgiris
Two tribal residents, who covered up the death of a wild elephant by electrocution for over four years, were arrested by Forest Department in The Nilgiris on Sunday.
Coimbatore
The elephant was electrocuted after it came into contact with an illegal electric fence put up by M Eswaran, 40, in Mettukkal coming under the Kotagiri Forest Range. Officials said that Eswaran took the help of two others S Katturaja, 27 and S Nithish Kumar, 24, to bury the carcass. Nithish Kumar died in a road mishap in 2019.
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