ODISHA ELEPHANT BURIAL POINTS TO SYSTEMIC ROT

HISTORY does repeat itself, and often not in a good way.

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The death of an elephant in Odisha’s Kandhamal district offers a recent example. Apparently poached, the jumbo’s carcass was chopped into 32 pieces, transported and buried in different places. All this was carried out by a deputy range officer. The case, which happened through January, came to light after the media picked up the trail and the forest department was forced to investigate. Its magnitude can be gauged from the astonishingly brazen act of suppression by the department officials.