The Kerala High Court has, through an interim order, barred the parading of tusker Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, based on a medical report about the pachyderm’s loss of vision in its right eye.
It further issued six weeks time to Thechikottukavu Devaswom to respond to the issue, on a petition filed by an Idukki-based animal rights organisation. It alleged that the tusker continued to be paraded, resulting in its running amok and killing two people in 2019, although a medical team had confirmed that its right eye had lost vision in 2017.
This was followed by Forest personnel seeking a permanent ban on it being paraded.
