Guwahati, June 4 -- Reported by Avik Chakraborty

Dibrugarh: Elephant Monitors Assam has urged the Assam Forest Department to investigate reports that a captive elephant under the Golaghat Forest Division is being transferred to a buyer outside the state, alleging the existence of an illegal elephant trafficking network.

Bhabananda Gogoi, trustee of Elephant Monitors Assam, claimed that a domesticated adult male elephant named Ram Prasad is in the process of being sold to a buyer in a southern Indian state.

"We demand that the Forest Department intervene and verify the reports. We have received information from local sources that the elephant Ram Prasad is being sold outside Assam," Gogoi said.

According to Gogoi, Ram Prasad had allege...