When did the elephants die?

Bhaskar J Barua

1.Who has certified that the land now occupied by the solar power company is not an elephant corridor?

2.Which forest official has issued the NOC to the company to set up the plant?

3.Is this a case of electrocution, not from natural causes like lightning but from man made causes?

4.What scientific evidence does our experts have to suggest that a natural calamity took the lives of these elephants?

5. Who suggested that these elephants instead of being buried, will be burnt with tyres?

6. Our questions are based on photographic evidence. If our inferences are wrong, how come a so called expert from South Africa conclude that this is a case of lightning?

7. Why have our so called elephant experts relied on an expert opinion from South Africa and not from our local elephant experts? Who gave them the right to create a narrative?

8. What is the criteria to designate someone as an elephant expert?

9. Who first started the narrative that lightning killed the elephants? Is he an expert and if so what are the evidences presented?

10. Is our Forest Department so helpless that the narrative suggested by self styled experts becomes the final words? If so, they should relinquish their positions and stop relying on tax payers money for their hefty salaries.

11. How come a lightning of such magnitude which can kill 18 elephants, cannot even burn a blade of grass or a tender leaf from the nearby tree saplings?

12. Does the so called elephant experts declaring the case as that of a result of a natural calamity have any idea how energy works?

13. Who is operating the stone query, a stones throw away from the death site?

14. How far is the Beat Office from the site of the deaths of the gentle giants?

15. When did the elephants die?

16. Why haven’t the local DFO acted in time, and rather wait for an Investigation Officer to be appointed from Dispur?

May, 2021

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