(IN): Tusker calf dumped without post-mortem

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<http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=sep1109/State8>*Tusker

calf dumped without post-mortem

*CORRESPONDENT

KALAIGAON, Sept 10 – Another shocking example of the sad death of a baby

wild elephant in Udalguri district has come to light to much disappointment

of people. Instead of finding the cause of death, the body was dumped

quickly without performingpostmortem. The incident has raised several

questions regarding the safe movement of the wild elephants in the district

in view of the so called man elephant conflict.

 

According to information received body of a three months old baby wild

elephant calf was found in No.1 Satgharia village (Jorapuphuri basti), about

3 km north of Hatigarh TE on September 2. But the body of the baby elephant

was dumped quickly without performingpostmortem. According to the nature

lovers, it was important to find out the causes of death rather then to dump

it. They suspected that the baby elephant was either poisoned to death or

electrocuted. D N Hazarika, Circle Officer, Harisinga Revenue Circle, said

the matter had already been reported to the DC, Udalguri.

 

‘When contacted H Kalita, Range Officer, Nonoi Range Office at first told

this correspondent on September 5 (at 5 pm) that postmortemhad been done in

presence of Dr. R K Chamua, VAS, Tangla. Dr Chamua refused attending any

postmortem of the baby elephant. But he alleged that one VFA only (Prafulla

Saharia) had been taken to the spot for postmortem, which he said was

against the rule.

 

B Sarma DFO, Dhansri Division, Udalguri confirmed the death of the baby

elephant at 6 pm on September 6 and said that he was wrongly informed of the

incident. According to him VFA were not authorised to perform postmortems.

 

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