Four elephants reached the residence of veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and his son Jayant Sinha known as Rishibh Vatika situated in Hutpa village of Hazaribagh district. They remained there for more than an hour and almost took a full round of their farmhouse. They damaged the main gate of their residence and broke the boundary wall of the house.
The four jumbos separated from the group of 14 members herd created panic in the Sadar block of Hazaribagh last night. On Saturday evening this herd was seen on the National Highway in the Daru block of the district. As they came on NH the traffic remained stopped for more than two hours. After spending some hours on the NH the group entered into the forest.
On the same day in the night, they again entered in the Daru village and damaged the boundary wall of more than half dozen houses. They ate the food grain and other items which were kept for the daily use in the houses by the villagers.
On Sunday night the same group reached to Charhi forest area from Daru and entered into Hutpa village. The herd first damaged some houses situated in the village and then reached to the outside area of the village where former central minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha lives.
The herd tried to enter in the house, when they didn’t got success then damaged the main gate of the residence. They also damaged the boundary wall of the house. After about an hour they returned back from there to the jungle.
The RCCF (Regional Chief Conservator of Forest) Sanjeev Kumar said that after getting the information the Divisional Forest Officer Rajeev Ranjan along with his team visited the house of Yashwant Sinha. He said that the Jumbos attack is increasing day by day in the district. So we have decided to train the villagers with the help of our team of experts. The practice is going on and till date many villagers have been trained by the expert team.