The physique of a 70-year-old girl was present in Kerala’s Idukki, who died after an elephant attacked her, the fifth such incident within the state this yr. Residents of Kothamangalam in Idukki staged a protest on Monday over the rise in human-animal battle within the area.
The girl was recognized as Indira Ramakrishnan, and was attacked by an elephant in Kanjiraveli space in Idukki earlier in the present day. She had gone right into a rubber plantation close to the forest when the elephant attacked her. She was rushed to a close-by hospital, however succumbed to her accidents, police stated.
She had entered the rubber plantation to serve breakfast for her husband, who was engaged in some work.
The protesters, led by Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan and Idukki MP Dean Kuriakose, refused at hand over the lady’s physique for postmortem examination and demanded that the human-animal battle ought to be addressed.
The physique was reportedly taken away from the mortuary forcibly, which led to a scuffle with the police, with protesters taking to the streets chanting ‘Police return’, information company PTI reported.
A number of movies confirmed Ernakulam DCC president Mohammad Shias pushing a senior police officer.
In the meantime, Dean Kuriakose stated that the police ought to be held accountable for insulting the useless by bringing the physique on the highway.
Additionally they stated that the protest would finish after ministers got here to the spot.
The police forcibly took away the physique from them.
(With inputs from PTI)