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According to officials, the elephants, which were portion of a larger herd, came successful interaction with an 11 KV (kilovolt) powerfulness transmission enactment that was 3.45 meters high. (File Photo)
Weeks aft the Chhattisgarh High Court asked the authorities to instrumentality measures to forestall elephant deaths, 3 tuskers — including a calf — died of electrocution successful Raigarh territory Friday evening.
The incidental took spot successful Chuhkimar wood nether Tamnar wood scope successful Raigarh. According to officials, the elephants, which were portion of a larger herd, came successful interaction with an 11 KV (kilovolt) powerfulness transmission enactment that was 3.45 meters high. A station mortem showed that the animals died of electrocution implicit 12 hours ago.
According to officials, portion the country is portion of an elephant corridor, nary tusker had ever stopped here.
“This is the archetypal clip an elephant has died astatine the spot. We person besides taken mitigating measures by informing the energy section astir a fewer villages wherever elephant question has been observed asking them to summation the tallness of energy lines truthful specified an incidental is avoided successful future,” Raigarh Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Stylo Mandavi told The Indian Express.
Human-elephant conflicts successful the bluish portion of the authorities person been a large origin of interest successful the past decade, with districts specified arsenic Surguja, Raigarh, Korba, Surajpur, and Balrampur facing the problem.
On October 3, the Chhattisgarh High Court disposed of a 2021 petition that sought a solution to the problem. The tribunal had antecedently expressed daze astatine the fig of elephant deaths caused by electrocution.
“Will specified deaths spell unchecked? What is happening, what measures are being taken? If you cannot prevention wildlife, we are doomed,” a part seat comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal said during 1 of the hearings.
According to the petitioners, a full of 21 elephants person died of electrocution betwixt 2022 and 2024. The affidavit besides cites wood section information to accidental that 2,391 locations had escaped electrical lines and says that determination was a high-level gathering of authorities authorities officials earlier this twelvemonth to forestall elephants owed to electrocution.
“In presumption of the same, the authorities acrophobic are directed to comply with the decisions taken successful the above-mentioned meetings,” the seat had said successful its October ruling.
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