Thiruvananthapuram, 24/3: The Kerala High Court has stayed the capturing of a wild elephant in Idukki district of Kerala.
Considering the petitions filed by animal rights forums, the court held a special session on Thursday evening and stayed till next Wednesday the forest department’s plans to capture the wild elephant.
The forest department was planning to capture the elephant on Sunday and elaborate arrangements were being made. The elephant was called ‘Arikomabam’ (‘Ari’ means rice in Malayalam and ‘Komban’ means tusker) as it often took rice from human settlements in Chinnakanal near the Munnar tourist spot.