The government has informed the High Court that it will constitute an expert committee to investigate a series of deaths of elephants in the jumbo camps.
The court was hearing a PIL petition by advocate P N Amrutesh, on Wednesday.
The advocate for the government informed that veteran elephant experts Prof R Sukumar, Thomas Mathew, and Surendra Verma have refused to be part of the team.
Prof Sukumar has recommended the name of Dr. N Kalaivannan of Tamil Nadu. So, the government has decided to form an expert team comprising veteran experts in the field - Kalaivannan, Dr. Ashraf of Noida and Wild Life First Organisation trustee K M Chinnappa of Bengaluru.
The bench directed that the team’s report should be submitted on October 30.
Published 25 September 2019, 17:23 IST