{"id":144553,"date":"2021-02-27T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=144553"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T10:39:23","slug":"ngt-moef-bandhavgarh-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/ngt-moef-bandhavgarh-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"National Green Tribunal directs forest ministry panel to probe death of elephant by electrocution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Green Tribunal has directed the Monitoring Committee set up by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&amp;CC) to look into the death of an elephant by electrocution and to protect the lives of 40 elephants in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Bandhavgarh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench comprising Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel, Sheo Kumar Singh and Expert Member Nagin Nanda passed the order on a plea seeking to fix accountability for the death of an elephant by electrocution and to protect the lives of 40 elephants in<br>Bandhavgarh, MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large td_quote_box td_box_center\"><p><span style=\"color:#dd3333\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;\u2026we direct Central Monitoring Committee constituted by the MoEF&amp;CC and the Chief Wildlife Warden, MP to look into the grievance in the present application and take remedial action in accordance with the law,&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>-the order said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/kk-venugopal-ranjan-gogoi-saket-gokhale-contempt-of-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AG Venugopal refuses to initiate contempt proceedings against former CJI Ranjan Gogoi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plea filed by P.G. Najpande stated that on 28.11.2020 one elephant lost its life by electrocution in the forest area of Bargi, village Mohas, District Jabalpur on account of a high voltage trap with high voltage overloaded power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Apart from the death of one elephant, there is a danger to the lives of 40 wild animals in the forest of Bandhavgarh,&#8221; the plea said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bench comprising Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel, Sheo Kumar Singh and Expert Member Nagin Nanda passed the order on a plea seeking to fix accountability for the death of an elephant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[101787,4703,242,3884,198],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2020\/07\/30184542\/elephant-killed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}