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Hyderabad man announces Rs 2 lakh reward for information on elephant killer

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Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, June 4

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A Hyderabad resident has announced a reward of Rs 2 lakh from his savings to anyone who provides information about the killing of the pregnant elephant by feeding it pineapple stuffed with crackers.

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BT Srinivasan took to Twitter and made the announcement saying “I want to offer a reward of 2 lakhs from my personal savings to the person who gives information about the miscreants who made a pregnant elephant eat a pineapple stuffed with crackers. The elephant, which died in Kerala.”

The death of the elephant has attracted international outrage with the social media full of cartoons in which the elephant and its baby are talking about humans. Srinivasan is a farmer and also runs a stock broking franchise in the city.

In a tweet in which Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has been tagged, the local has expressed his anguish at the dastardly act.

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The man is so upset that he has offered Rs 2 lakh form his personal savings so that the guilty is brought to book.

The incident took place earlier this week in Kerala’s Malappuram. The man has also tagged BJP MP Maneka Gandhi, a known animal lover in the tweet.

Srinivasan, is a resident of Devinagar near Secundrabad and is also the General Secretary of the local United Federation of Resident Welfare Association.

He said, “I want to do something to ensure that the culprits involved in the incident get stringent punishment and accordingly I decided to give the reward.”

Using explosives is a common way to trap wild bores by farmers to save their crop.

When the cracker or bomb explodes in the animal’s mouth, the glass shards in it can pierce deep into the muscles or intestines and even settle there, reducing the animal’s chances of survival, experts say.

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