The elephant, Thiruvambadi Shivasundar, was paraded in four major festivals, including Thrissur Pooram though it was suffering from a host of ailments like, psoriasis, partial paralysis and bowel disorder.
"We have a filed a criminal case as the elephant was paraded without the mandatory permission of the department. We are also probing the details of a complaint which has alleged torture of the elephant for many months," a senior official with the forest department said.
Elephant rights activists said that the ailing elephant, Shivasundar, was paraded in festivals like Thrissur pooram, Paramekkavu,Thiruvambadi and Shankaramagalam vela from morning to night for over nine hour in gross violation of the Kerala Captive Elephants (Management and Maintenance Rules, 2012.)
"The owner should arrange for medical check up at least once in a year and he has to inform within 24 hours, the forest department in case of an attack of a disease," said V K Venkatachalam, secretary of elephant lovers' association.
In the last five and half months there were 856 incidents of elephant running amok and 10 elephant deaths.
Activists point out yet another shocking case wherein the temple authorities had paraded another elephant, Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, which had killed 10 people in the past and has now turned almost blind.
"Thechikottukavu Ramachandran was used to open the door of the southern gopuram of the Vadakkumnathan temple to formally announce the beginning of the Thrissur Pooram on May 8. This shows that the organizers were not concerned about the welfare of the elephants but want to just glamorize the whole event," he said.
There were also two separate incidents of elephant running amok the day after Thrissur pooram, with 17 people, including many percussion artists getting injured in one incident.
The captive elephant rules say a district committee comprising collector as the chairman and representatives from forest department and members from elephants owners association should meet before every festival season and take necessary step for the welfare of elephants.
"The elephants had to bear the sound of bursting of fire crackers which had 3,000 decibels way beyond the permissible limits. There district authorities who were supposed to monitor the violations and report the matter did not do anything," Venkatachalam said.
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