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Sep 5, 2024 · Kolkata: A fact-finding committee report on the elephant death in Jhargram on Aug 15 from a banned flaming torch has attributed it to clueless hulla party members, their forceful driving of the elephants and absence of effective crowd control measures.
- Krishnendu Mukherjee
Aug 22, 2024 · A female elephant, part of a herd of five that strayed into Jhargram town on Thursday morning, was killed after being speared by a burning iron stick, apparently by a member of a hula party. A tusker that was part of the same herd killed a man before being darted and released into the wild.
- Debraj Mitra
Aug 31, 2024 · The killing of a pregnant elephant in West Bengal’s Jhargram district this month has put into focus the increasing numbers of human-elephant conflicts in the southern parts of the state and the role of ‘ hula parties’ – local youth recruited by the state government to ward off elephants from human-populated areas.
No. Hulla parties, which are controlled by the state forest departments, are supposed to use drums and other non-violent means to drive away elephants. “But in this case, the crowd threw flaming...
Aug 22, 2024 · In the wake of the killing of a pregnant elephant in Jhargram allegedly by Hula members, the state Forest Department plans to give training to them on how to deal with the tuskers. The department also plans to give them uniforms and body cams to forest officials.
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Aug 17, 2024 · One of five elephants that strayed into Jhargram town on Thursday morning was killed after being speared by a burning iron rod, apparently by a member of a hula party — squads comprising local residents armed with searchlights, flaming torches and crackers and deployed to steer jumbos away from human settlements, said forest department ...
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An adult female elephant has died in Jhargram in West Bengal after mobs pierced her with a flaming spear hours after another pachyderm allegedly killed a resident on the outskirts of the town,...
