Star Online Report
A writ petition was filed with the High Court today, challenging the “negligence” of the authorities concerned to protect wild elephants from unnatural death.
Manoj Kumar Bhowmick, a Supreme Court lawyer, submitted the petition as a public interest litigation to the HC, also seeking its directive upon the government to form a high-powered committee to conduct an inquiry into the deaths of wild elephants in Chattogram in last several years.
In the petition, he said that the officials concerned of the forest department are constitutionally bound to protect wild elephants but they failed to comply as 106 elephants have reportedly died in the last 19 years in Chattogram.
Manoj Kumar Bhowmick told The Daily Star that he filed the writ petition based on a report published in The Daily Star on August 23 on deaths of wild elephants.
The HC may hold hearing on the petition within a day or two, he added.
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