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A heart-wrenching video of a 48-year-old injured pet elephant named Maniki limping along an Assam highway has gone viral, triggering widespread public anger and urgent action from forest officials.
The footage shows Maniki's left front leg badly bent as she struggles to walk, a mahout perched on her back. Despite clear forest department orders to transport her by truck, she was being made to trek nearly 95 km from Kakopathar in Tinsukia to Dibrugarh for treatment.
Mahout Pradeep Moran revealed that the ordeal began six days earlier, with the elephant covering just 36 km before reaching Makum. Local resident Krishna Majhi offered...