Police seize ‘killer’ elephant owned by ex-Assam MLA
The Hindu
Female pachyderm trampled a 14-year-old boy to death, triggering outrage among local people
The police in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district seized a female elephant owned by a former MLA after it trampled a 14-year-old boy to death. The police in the district’s Bokakhat town registered a case in connection with the incident under Section 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code, and handed over the elephant named Dulumoni and her eight-month-old calf Lakhimi to the authorities of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. Bokakhat, about 240 km east of Guwahati, is the headquarters of Kaziranga.More Related News