(IN): Wild pachyderms terrorising Udalguri people

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Wild pachyderms terrorising Udalguri people

* From Our Correspondent

UDALGURI, July 9 – Wild pachyderms in groups have been attacking some

border villages in the Udalguri district in recent times. The incidents of

attacks by the wild elephants in these villages showed that they came to the

villages from the bordering Bhutan and Arunachal in search of food. Now it

is a common sight in the border villages of the district that the villagers

have to pass sleepless nights in order to save their paddy fields, houses

and even human lives from the wrath of wild elephants who throng the

villages under the cover of darkness and start attacking the villages.

 

Such an incident of wild elephant attack took place in the morning on July 6

last at Tarajuli village under Rowta PS in which one Pashupati Upadhyaya(70)

became the victim. According to the reports from the village, a group of six

wild elephants attacked and trampled him to death. The herd also destroyed

the house of the deceased.

 

The herd then attacked one Loknath Sapkota(53) of the same village when he

was ploughing his paddy field. Sapkota was brought to Rowta state dispensary

for treatment and his condition is stated to be critical till the filing of

this report. Not only this, the herd of wild pachyderms also destroyed the

stationary shop of one Kathek Chetry in the same village and destroyed the

house of one George Bahadur Chetry.

 

Meanwhile, the Rowta police led by Manik Ch. Das, officer-in-charge visited

the village and took stock of the situation and sent the body of Upadhyaya

to Mangaldoi for post-mortem.

 

Talking to this correspondent, some of the villagers alleged that the forest

department of the district was indifferent to the increasing menace of wild

elephants in the villages which has caused tremendous loss to the villagers

in this rainy season.

 

Meanwhile, reports of menace of wild elephants in Amjuli, Lisingaon,

Borigaon, Ambagaon, Khaurang, Phulbari and neighboring rural areas bordering

Bhutan were being received.

 

Demanded: The Mazbat block committee of Bodoland Peoples Progressive Front

(BPPF-H) demanded the immediate arrest of GS Paneswar, block development

officer of Mazbat Development Block and some others in connection with the

assault on one Pinku Borah, secretary of the political organization. Borah

was assaulted in broad daylight on July 4 in the heart of Mazbat town by

some miscreants.

 

The Mazbat block committee of the party also lodged an FIR against the

accused persons at Mazbat PS and demanded the immediate arrest of GS

Paneswar, Dipak Mour, secretary of Sachetan Yuva Mancha, Munindra Kalita,

Gautam Hazarika, Manoj Roy Choudhury, Nirmal Kachari, Rakheb Daimari, Nirmal

Daimari and Srikanta Daimari, believed to be linked with the attack of Pinku

Borah failing which the BPPF(H) threatened to launch a massive agitation to

this effect.

 

Meanwhile, a press release issued by Kartick Ch Boro and Naren Boro,

president and secretary respectively of Udalguri district BPPF(H) committee

condemned the attack on Pinku Borah and demanded immediate arrest of

culprits involoved in the attack.

 

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