Dear Editor,
Mohini–a female elephant is made to beg on streets of Jammu by some Babas for years although Babas using her are changed after few years. It’s been more than 15 years that she is being abused in heat and cold made to walk on concrete roads in 50 degree temperature. When we feel heat of roads through our shoes, imagine plight of miserable Mohini walking in this heat. She is kept inside Narwal Mandi in a half constructed shop belonging to a contractor.
Her handlers walk her all over the city begging in peak heat and these people are also drug-addicts. These people beat her with stick forcing her to walk when she is tired, hungry and suffering from heat. Many people reported the same to us on WhatsApp and even tried to stop them, but those arrogant Babas argue and carry on torturing her fearlessly, without any fear of law. Please rescue the elephant and send her to an Elephant sanctuary where she can spend rest of her days in her natural habitat not living in isolation in this concrete town. She deserves better. Through the columns of your paper, we seek attention of J&K UT administration to please look into the matter at an earliest and make arrangements for rescuing her from this massive abuse by the few drug-addict Babas.
Devinder Kaur Madaan,
Sr Vice-president, SPCA Jammu.
Chairperson ‘Save Animals Value Environment’.
