927 pleas filed to seek justice for Kerala jumbo
   Date :05-Jun-2020

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NEW DELHI :
 
Two persons taken into custody by Kerala forest department
 
 
HOURS before the world observes World Environment Day, people across the world have expressed their outrage through a petition platform over inhumane killing of a pregnant elephant in Kerala. In less than 24 hours, as many as 927 petitions have been filed on the petition website Change.org and over 13 lakh people have signed these demanding the perpetrators of this cruel act be punished. “Perhaps a more important question to ask right now is why we hear news about so many voiceless deaths and not enough about prosecutions? The law in India does not give long prison sentences for wildlife crimes. A sense of fear should be spread amongst people who might become killers of these innocent living beings. Convictions for wildlife killing must receive rigorous sentencing with hefty fines,” said Kamal Ganatra, a citizen of Oman, in his petition.
 
The petition has been supported by 5.6 lakh people in a day. Thane resident Nikhil Suryawanshi, another petitioner on the platform, demanded that a murder charge be slapped against the perpetrators of the gruesome crime. A Kerala forest department team probing the killing of a pregnant elephant is leant to have taken two persons into custody. The forest officials are tight-lipped on the progress of their investigation. The elephant’s habitat was in the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad district. 
 
Not in Indian culture to feed firecrackers and kill: Javdekar
 
NEW DELHI,
 
June 4 (PTI)
 
IT IS not in Indian culture to feed firecrackers and kill, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javdekar said on Thursday while taking serious note of the death of a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala after she was fed firecrackers-filled pineapple. Tweeting about the incident that has taken social media by the storm, Javdekar said the Government will not leave any stone unturned to bring the culprit to book. “Central Government has taken a very serious note of the killing of an elephant in Mallapuram, #Kerala. We will not leave any stone unturned to investigate properly and nab the culprit(s). This is not an Indian culture to feed fire crackers and kill (sic),” he said in a tweet. In a statement on Wednesday night, Javdekar had promised a stern action against those responsible for cruelly killing the pregnant wild elephant in Kerala.