Top Court To Hear Plea Over Fireball Use Against Elephants In West Bengal
NDTV
The plea referred to an August 15, 2024 incident when a group of elephants entered a colony on the outskirts of Jhargram town in West Bengal.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings for alleged violation of its orders asking the state authorities to desist from using fireballs to drive elephants that come near human habitation or croplands.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanthan issued notice to West Bengal's Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force) seeking his response to the plea and posted the matter for hearing after four weeks.
The petitioner, Prerna Singh Bindra, has referred to the orders passed by the apex court on August 1, 2018 and December 4, 2018, while hearing a plea which highlighted the cruel methods used in some states to manage human-wildlife conflict and in particular human-elephant conflict.
