Virat Kohli angry with death of pregnant elephant.
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‘Only a monster can do this’: Virat Kohli, Sunil Chhetri, Saina Nehwal speak out on death of pregnant elephant

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli was amongst a number of sportspersons who took to social media to specific shock over the inhuman incident the place a pregnant elephant was fed pineapple filled with firecrackers in Kerala.

The brutal incident of animal abuse befell in Kerala’s Palakkad district, which resulted within the demise of the elephant whereas standing within the river.

“Appalled to hear about what happened in Kerala. Let’s treat our animals with love and bring an end to these cowardly acts,” Kohli mentioned in a tweet from his Twitter deal with.

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Star shuttler Saina Nehwal condemned the act by replying to People For Animals India’s publish on the brutality. “So sad to know this,” Saina mentioned.

 

Indian soccer workforce captain Sunil Chhetri known as the perpetrators of this as “monsters”.

“She was a harmless, pregnant Elephant. That makes the people who did what they did, monsters and I hope so hard that they pay a price. We keep failing nature over and over again. Remind me how we’re the more evolved species?” Chhetri tweeted.

 

India pacer Umesh Yadav echoed Chhetri and known as for strict motion to be taken in opposition to those that did it.

“Feeding a pregnant elephant with a pineapple filled with crackers. Only a monster can do this. Strict action should be taken against the culprits,” Umesh mentioned in a tweet.

 

Director of Celebrity and Public Relations, PETA India, Sachin Bangera has been very vocal and celebrities have been replying to his posts, asking him to get the criminals arrested.

“Never understood humans. They revere elephant-God and also abuse elephants by beating, torturing and using them for joyrides,” he tweeted.

Olympian pistol shooter Heena Sidhu wrote, replying to the publish: “Not a rocket science…

“This is the Elephant God and this is just plain old elephant. Just like…This is a rich businessman and this one just a plain old migrant labourer or farmer. We all know what to worship and what to abuse.”

Many celebrities each from the world of sports activities and leisure shared pictures and sketches to specific their anger and grief.

Ace India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh additionally posted a sequence of indignant confronted emoticons on a newsfeed of the identical. Later, Harbhajan mentioned in an Instagram publish that he can not recover from this dastardly act.

“I honestly can’t get over this! It’s hurting so bad to think of what she went through.. I pray whoever did this gets the harshest of punishment.. are these inhuman people just born this way or is it upbringing??”

The Kerala Forest division has launched a ‘manhunt’ for these chargeable for the demise of the 15-year-old pregnant wild elephant, mentioned an official.

In one other tweet Sachin wrote: “PETA is in touch with @ForestKerala. A case has been registered against unidentified persons under Secs 9 & 51 of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. We’ve offered our support and assistance to the forest dept. in bringing the perpetrators to justice. Via @asharmeet02.”

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