By IANS,
Gurgaon : The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has taken over the custody of two circus elephants abandoned by their owner after he did not get the permit to transport them, officials said Friday.
“As the owner of the Western Circus has left for Dehradun without taking the two elephants, we are looking after them. We are providing fodder to them and they have been kept at Gadhi Harsaru village,” a MCG official said.
The elephants – Sita and Anar – have been tied up at a vacant plot in old Gurgaon ever since the Western Circus had its last show in Gurgaon April 5.
MCG officials said they are waiting for district administration’s instructions for further action.
Western Circus owns five parrots, two macaws, seven Pomeranian dogs and six horses in addition to the two elephants. However, the circus owner was surrounded by controversies till he was in Gurgaon. A team from Orissa had come to investigate whether the macaws used by circus are the same which were stolen from the state’s Nandankanan Zoo.