Kerala Minister for Forest and Wildlife A.K. Saseendran has said that an order seeking to tranquilize the wild elephant that killed a man at Chaligaddha near Kattikulam in Wayanad district on Saturday, February 10, will be issued soon.
He told the media after a high-level meeting here that the Kerala High Court had been conducting a hearing related to the death of Thanneer Komban, the radio-collared wild elephant from Karnataka which died recently after being tranquilized and captured by the department. Mr. Saseendran said that a member of the court-appointed expert committee related to the incident had been summoned.