At around 3.30 am on Saturday, a patrolling team of foresters found bodies of two elephants on the paddy field at Rakamjot Bustee near Naxalbari's Kolabari forest, some five kilometres from the Indo-Nepal border and 30 kilometres from Siliguri.
A herd of elephants was seen roaming around the Panighatta beat area. Locals said they had damaged crop fields to feed upon the harvested crops. "In order to stop that, some villagers had tapped power and laid the wire open in the field that led to the electrocution of the elephants," said a source.
Buddhi Rajshiva, acting DFO of Kurseong division, rushed to the spot. After primary investigation, the forest department lodged an FIR against two villagers with the Naxalbari PS. However, both the villagers are absconding.
"While one of the elephants was electrocuted after its trunk entangled in the wires, the other one died after its tail mired in the wires. This is very unfortunate and should not have happened," said Rajshiva.
Tapping of electricity is an old practice in the forest villages. Villagers do that in order to save their houses and paddy fields from elephants. They tap power and connect it to the fences of their houses and lay open wires on their fields. Whenever an elephant wants to break into that fence, it dies.
Over the past few years, the practice has also gained popularity among villagers in the Bamandanga area of Nepal's Kakarvitta, a place which is often raided by elephants that cross over the Mechi river on the Indo-Nepal border and enter that village. Several elephants had died in Bamandanga over the past couple of years and seven others were shot dead.
In Bengal, as many as 18 jumbos died of electrocution in the Dooars and Terai regions over the past decade.
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