People for Cattle in India (PFCI) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Madras High Court seeking to halt the proposed transfer of a baby elephant from Uttarakhand to a Nellaiappar temple in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.

The PIL was admitted today before the Chief Justice. The Court directed that notices be served to the Forest Departments, the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department, and the Central Government.

This action follows reports of plans to move a wild baby elephant into temple captivity. The temple in question had earlier housed elephant Gandhimathi, who died earlier this year after prolonged illness, highlighting serious welfare lapses in captive-elephant management.

PFCI has offered to donate a mechanical elephant to this temple, similar t

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