The Madras High Court was hearing a writ petition on the protection of shrine elephants. (File)
Chennai:
The Madras High Court on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu government if it had not learnt a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic that one cannot fight against nature. Have you not learnt a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic? Has it not advised you not to fight with nature? the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy asked.
These were the questions posed by the court when a public interest writ petition from a devotee of Sriranganatha Swamy temple in Srirangam in Tiruchirappalli, praying for a direction to the state to file a report on the protection of shrine elephants, came up for hearing on Tuesday.
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Coimbatore: A five-member committee comprising veterinarians of the forest department and animal husbandry department that checked Srivilliputhur Andal temple elephant Jayamalyatha at the rejuvenation camp for temple and mutt elephants in Thekkampatti here on Monday said that the animal was not injured.
The mahout of Jayamalyatha and his assistant were arrested on Sunday after a video that showed them thrashing the animal went viral on social media.
The committee, consisting of forest veterinary officer Dr A Sukumar, retired additional director of animal husbandry and member of captive elephant management committee of Project Elephant Dr N S Manoharan, regional joint director of animal husbandry department Dr Perumalsamy, former forest veterinary assistant surgeon of Mudumalai elephant camp Dr N Kalaivanan and veterinary assistant surgeon of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve Dr K Rajesh Kumar will inspect the 23 temple elephants and thee mutt elephants at the camp to verify if they were subj