The operation to catch and tranquilise the wild elephant was called off for the day after a 150-member team of officials and a group of four kumki elephants, failed to locate it.
The High Court has directed the Forest Department to not capture the wild elephant and has instead ordered that a committee of experts be constituted to advise the court on available options.
The Kerala HC stopped the forest department’s ‘Mission Arikomban’, which had been planned so as to tranquilise and capture a wild elephant that has wreaked havoc in some areas of Idukki district