Chennai: Madras High Court has directed the Forestry Department to prepare video documents from all elephant prisoners in the state, complete with the details of each elephant including age, gender, lineage and how it ends with captivity.
“Every effort must be made to show how the elephant is captured or tamed.
Exercise must be resolved by obtaining video recording from all prisoners’ elephants in the state and providing a profile feature during video recording or vice versa,” said the court.
The first bench from the chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P D Audikesavalu gave orders to a collection of Pils who accused the abuse of elephant prisoners, especially in temples.
As far as regarding elephant-elephant temples, the head of the main forest conservator must establish the right official, along with doctors from the relevant area, to examine elephants and ensure their health condition.
This exercise can be done for all prisoners’ elephants in the state, but starting with elephants in the temple, the court said.
“Some aspects of how elephants traded by forest officials have been indicated in the presentation made by the Elsa Foundation.” Head of the main forest conservator must respond to aspects of such problems by means of possible reports, “said the court.
The judges added that at any level, The video recording sought by this court must also be accompanied by a small report that details how video recording is prepared, so that elements of accountability and authentication are proven.
Regarding the delivery conducted by other parts of the applicant that elephants have been tamed and used traditionally in religious and cultural programs For years, the court said, “Fortunately, there is still enough forest cover in this situation This new to eat in the forest D Ari every edge, elephants live in the wild in Tamil Nadu in several places, especially in Nigiris, said the court.