Man convicted for electrocuting wild elephant near Sathyamangalam

The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court successful Coimbatore, which is the Special Court for CBI cases, connected Thursday sentenced a antheral from Erode territory to 5 years’ imprisonment for electrocuting a chaotic elephant successful 2018. Judge K. Sivakumar awarded the punishment to Rangaraj Madha Nayakar of Sujilkarai colony successful Sathyamangalam taluk successful Erode district.

As per the CBI findings, a antheral chaotic elephant died of electrocution aft getting into interaction with an amerciable electrical fencing erected astir the workplace of Nayakar connected the intervening nighttime of November 22 and 23, 2018. He had linked the obstruction to a debased hostility powerfulness line, an amerciable practice. The country falls wrong the jurisdiction of Germalam wood scope of Hasanur Forest Division of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve.