P.D. Dinakaran, C.J.

1. The silent beauty and salient features of the nature and environment are described by our Great national Poet, Sri Rabindranath Tagore in ‘GITANJALI’, Poem 45, as hereunder:-

“Have you not heard his silent steps?

He come, comes, ever comes.

‘every moment and every age, every day and every night

He comes, comes, ever comes.

Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind,

‘But all their notes have always proclaimed, “He comes, comes, ever comes”

In the fragrant days of sunny April through the

Forest path be comes, comes, ever comes.

In the rainy gloom of July nights on the thundering

Chariot of clouds he come, comes, ever comes.

In Sorrow after sorrow it is his steps that press upon

My heart and it is the golden touch of his feet that makes my joy to shine”.

-Sri Rabindranath Tagore

2. This Public Interest Litigation, unlike other usual adversarial litigation, initiated by this Court, suo motu, based on the press reports as to the mysterious death of elephants in Mysore forest area, is intended to draw the attention of the Executives their statutory duty and obligation and also to impress upon the public at large, as to their role and contribution for the protec