Mar 06, 2025 08:35 PM IST
The IDS is designed to detect the motion of untamed elephants and different wild animals on or close to the railway tracks passing by wildlife corridors
KOLKATA: An elephant used through the trial run of an intrusion detection system (IDS) on railway tracks in north Bengal attacked a retired military officer resulting in his demise on Thursday afternoon, folks acquainted with the matter stated.
IDS sends alerts to the practice’s loco pilot, station grasp and management room if there are any animals on or close to the railway tracks.
The sufferer, Colonel Sandip Chaudhury (retd), 57, a resident of Noida close to Delhi, was engaged by a personal firm that was contracted to hold out the trial run of IDS by the North East Frontier Railway.
The IDS is designed to detect the motion of untamed elephants and different wild animals on or close to the railway tracks passing by wildlife corridors. The system sends alerts to the practice’s loco pilot, station grasp and management room if there are any animals on or close to the railway tracks.
Officers stated the incident happened at 1:30pm when the trial run of IDS between Rajabhatkhawa and Alipurduar railway stations in north Bengal was in progress. NEF Railway common supervisor Chetan Kumar Shrivastava was amongst those that have been current on the time.
“At the time of testing the IDS at Rajabhatkhawa in Alipurduar, an employee of the contractual agency met with an accidental death after inadvertently getting too close to an elephant. The elephant pushed him and he fell into a ditch. He was immediately rushed to a hospital in Alipurduar where the doctors declared him dead,” stated a spokesperson of the NER Railway.
A forest division official who was on the spot stated two elephants, Jonaki and Mumtaz, have been introduced from the Buxa Tiger Reserve for the trial run because the system was alleged to detect the presence of elephants close to the tracks..
“While Mumtaz along with all the officials was on one side of the track, Jonaki was on the other side. The elephant suddenly got excited after a passenger train passed that way and charged at Chaudhury who was standing close to the elephant,” stated a forest division official current on the spot.
A police officer stated the physique has been despatched for post-mortem.
West Bengal accounts for the third highest variety of elephant deaths on railway tracks after Assam and Odisha. In response to information positioned within the Lok Sabha in July 2024, at the very least 10 elephants died in West Bengal after being hit by trains between April 2019 and March 2024. Assam reported 24 deaths and Odisha reported 16 deaths throughout the identical interval.
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