KRISHNAGIRI/ERODE: Postmortem conducted on three elephants that died on Sunday revealed that two died of electrocution while the other died after delivering a calf.
A forest official said a case would be registered against AIADMK Hosur corporation councillor S Narayanan, who owns the land at Thavarakarai where a ten-year-old female jumbo was electrocuted.
Denkanikottai TNEB assistant director, P Manivannan said he has lodged a complaint against Narayanan, for illegally taking service connection from an existing borewell connection. The cause of death of another female elephant in Jawalagiri was due to pregnancy-related complications, as per the report.
Postmortem of the 35-year-old female elephant died in Erode confirmed the death was due to electrocution. The owner of the farmland C Mahadevasamy (37) was arrested.