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The Forest Department has launched an probe to hint the origins of an elephant tusk, which was recovered hidden successful thickets successful Pollachi scope of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).
Staff from Pollachi scope recovered the tusk from a wood country adjacent Sethumadai based connected circumstantial information. Residents of a tribal colony had noticed the tusk hidden successful thickets wherever they were engaged successful chaotic chromatic collection. Word of rima connected the tusk among the tribals reached the ears of the Forest Department staff, who combed the determination and recovered it connected June 1.
Though the unit patrolled the wood area, they could not find skeletal remains of an elephant. The tusk, aft regular procedures, was submitted to the jurisdictional court.
ATR Field Director D. Venkatesh said that the tusk appears to beryllium precise old. Its basal did not person signs of having severed from the skull with a instrumentality arsenic done by poachers.
“Its basal appeared earthy arsenic if idiosyncratic collected it from aged skeletal remains of a tusker. Investigation is connected to hint the person, who hid it successful the forest,” helium said.
Devendra Kumar Meena, Deputy Director of Pollachi Division of ATR, said determination was not chopped marks connected the tusk. He said the Department was investigating from each imaginable angles.
