Mangaluru/Hassan: The wooded area division has booked a case towards Indian Railways after two elephant calves, one which was eight-months-old and any other about 18-months-old, were discovered lifeless beside railway tracks deep inside the Shiradi Ghat wooded area, between Subrahmanya and Yedakumari railway stations, on Monday morning.
Sivaram Babu M, deputy conservator of forests (DCF), confirming this to TOI, said veterinarians conducted the autopsy at the spot, and the carcasses were later cremated near Yedakumeri on Monday.
He said that underneath sections of the Karnataka Wildlife Protection Act, an FIR was registered at the jurisdiction police station. “Only after the autopsy file is launched, are we able to ascertain which teach caused the demise of the jumbos. The stories could have the time of demise, and in accordance with that time-frame, you'll find out which teach handed that stretch at that time,” he said. This is the first such demise of elephants in the fresh past, because of trains, in this stretch.
It is suspected that a teach wearing goods to Bengaluru from Mangaluru, could have hit the two male calves, while they were crossing the observe.
Sivaram said the station master of the Yedakumari Railway Station informed the Forest Department in regards to the incident on Monday morning. The station in-charge was informed in regards to the incident by the loco-pilot of a teach passing the stretch.
Quoting veterinarians’ initial stories, Sivaram said the demise is because of coincidence, where the teach engine should have hit the jumbos in the ghat section. The animals were discovered lifeless in the slopes of the Western Ghats, deep inside the wooded area.
However, wooded area officials are not sure as to how two elephants without a herd around, strayed directly to the railway observe. Sivaram suspected that they were both separated from their herd or orphans. “Calves usually don’t get separated from their herd. Our personnel tested the area where the jumbos were killed, however they did not to find any herd or any proof to suggest the movement of other elephants.”
Sivaram Babu M, deputy conservator of forests (DCF), confirming this to TOI, said veterinarians conducted the autopsy at the spot, and the carcasses were later cremated near Yedakumeri on Monday.
He said that underneath sections of the Karnataka Wildlife Protection Act, an FIR was registered at the jurisdiction police station. “Only after the autopsy file is launched, are we able to ascertain which teach caused the demise of the jumbos. The stories could have the time of demise, and in accordance with that time-frame, you'll find out which teach handed that stretch at that time,” he said. This is the first such demise of elephants in the fresh past, because of trains, in this stretch.
It is suspected that a teach wearing goods to Bengaluru from Mangaluru, could have hit the two male calves, while they were crossing the observe.
Sivaram said the station master of the Yedakumari Railway Station informed the Forest Department in regards to the incident on Monday morning. The station in-charge was informed in regards to the incident by the loco-pilot of a teach passing the stretch.
Quoting veterinarians’ initial stories, Sivaram said the demise is because of coincidence, where the teach engine should have hit the jumbos in the ghat section. The animals were discovered lifeless in the slopes of the Western Ghats, deep inside the wooded area.
However, wooded area officials are not sure as to how two elephants without a herd around, strayed directly to the railway observe. Sivaram suspected that they were both separated from their herd or orphans. “Calves usually don’t get separated from their herd. Our personnel tested the area where the jumbos were killed, however they did not to find any herd or any proof to suggest the movement of other elephants.”
Post-mortem will confirm which train killed 2 elephant calves: DCF
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