Tusker attacks homes of those who damaged Ganesha temple
October 5, 2008
Ashwin Shuddha Shashthi
Ranchi (Jharkhand): An elephant attacked houses of people allegedly involved in damaging a temple of Lord Ganesha in Jharkhand and ensured their arrest.
According to media reports on Saturday, a wild elephant attacked houses of around 10 people who on August 16 had damaged the temple of elephant-headed god Ganesha situated in Mahudi hills of Hazaribagh district, around 120 km from here. Later the police arrested those allegedly involved in the incident. The villagers point that the elephant did not hurt anyone else.
Reports suggest that the angry elephant appeared near the temple on August 17 and did not allow any devotee to enter. Later the elephant attacked houses of those involved in the damage. The villagers feel it identified those involved with its strong sense of smell.
"The elephant was staying around the temple. We succeeded in pacifying it, to install another statue of Ganesha," said Awadh Kishore Yadav, a villager.
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SHAME ON A PERSON WHO USES -"elephant-headed god Ganesha "why he or she just could not say - "god Ganesh " NON -HINDUS USE THIS TERM TO INSULT HINDUS " elephant-headed god Ganesha ". HINDUS SHOULD NOT SAY THAT . same thing goes with--" MONKEY FACED god hanumaan--" to insult HINDUS . but HINDUS should not say that and MUST NOT ALLOW NON-HINDUS TO SAY THAT .
sanja, Belgium
06 Oct 2008, 16:56
It's a shame to the police that now even an elephant is doing a better job then the police, who should have investigated and arrested the culprits!
The writer of the article probably protected the attackers for it's most likely they were muslims or christians! (Hindus would not destroy a temple). He never mentions this.
Krisna, Indonesia
07 Oct 2008, 05:58
Then we should use elephants to guard all temples and Hindu settlements for the police are nothing but a bunch of wimps !
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