The Madras High Court, on Friday (September 12, 2025), vacated its status quo order and permitted the forest department to go ahead with its pilot project to erect a steel wire rope fence for a distance of 10 km in Coimbatore district forests to prevent Human-Elephant Conflicts (HEC).
A special Division Bench of Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy took the decision after inspecting the entire stretch in person and hearing the views of all stakeholders including amici curiae T. Mohan, Chevanan Mohan, Rahul Balaji and M. Santhanaraman.
