Courts will lean toward animals who are silent victims of commercial ventures: Supreme Court

Key Points

1. Supreme Court favors animals in human-animal conflict cases.
2. Case involves hotels and resorts in Nilgiris elephant corridor.
3. Tamil Nadu government notified elephant corridors in Sigur Plateau.
4. Madras High Court approved dismantling of illegal constructions in elephant corridors on September 12.
5. Over 800 constructions, including 39 resorts, are inside the Sigur elephant corridor.
6. Hearing deferred to January by the Supreme Court.