People’s representatives, planters and residents of Sakaleshpur taluk staged a protest at Bage village on Monday demanding a permanent solution to the man-elephant conflict in the taluk. Hundreds of planters, farmers and agriculture labourers took part in the protest.
More than 60 elephants have been roaming in estates of Sakaleshpur, Alur and Belur taluks. A person was trampled to death near Ballupete last week. Another lady suffered serious injuries in a similar incident.