The Kerala government on Friday obtained time till April 21 from the Madras High Court to take a call on nominating its officials to a special investigation team (SIT) proposed to be constituted by the court to probe high-profile forest and wildlife offences reported in Tamil Nadu.
When a related case was listed before a Division Bench of Justices V. Bharathidasan and N. Sathish Kumar, Special Government Pleader (Forests) Nagaraj Narayanan, representing the Kerala government, said the issue had to be discussed at the highest level of the government.
Mr. Nagaraj Narayanan said the investigation in all 18 elephant poaching cases reported in Kerala had been completed and charge sheets had been filed against the accused before the jurisdictional courts. As of now, no case of elephant poaching was pending investigation.
