2 circus elephants rescued
A team of police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered two elephants from BM College in Barisal city Wednesday night, a day after the animals were allegedly taken away by some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).
The elephants named Badsha and Fulkoli were handed over to their owner, Mamataz Mia, a circus owner of Bogra.
The mahouts (elephant drivers) said some BCL men on Tuesday forcibly took away the elephants from Kamala Circus Party, a Barisal-based circus, which hired those from Mamataz on September 21 for a daily charge of Tk 4,000.
Kamala Circus gave the elephants' owner a month's payment in advance but has neither contacted him nor paid him for the last three months. So Mamataz lodged a case with a Bogra court a month ago, which recently asked police to recover the elephants and hand over those to their owner.
BM College BCL Joint Convener Nahid Sernyabat denied the allegations against the BCL men and said they rented those from Kamala Circus Party for their founding anniversary celebrations yesterday.
Kamal Chandra, owner of Kamala Circus, endorsed that the BCL men took the elephants from him on rent.
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