Elephants enter factory in Ratu, send locals, foresters in a tizzy The Times of India April 3, 2025 See link <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/elephants-enter-factory-in-ratu-send-locals-foresters-in-a-tizzy/articleshow/119953486.cms> for photo. Ranchi: Two elephants ventured into a closed cold storage factory in Ratu Chatti area in Ratu block on city outskirts early on Thursday sending the local forest department into a tizzy. By late evening, two separate teams deployed from Burmu and Itki areas since morning managed to gradually drive the elephants back to Itki jungles connecting Arki forest range in the adjoining Khunti district. Till the time of filing this news, no untoward incident was reported as the forest department had pressed a battery of its men on the ground for crowd control as well as safety of the animal to prevent any man-animal conflict. Ranchi's divisional forest officer Srikant Verma said that their plan was to wait till dusk to drive the elephant safely back into the jungles. "We didn't want to disturb the elephants which was camping and roaming inside the closed cold storage unit here in search of food. Our focus was to ensure that the crowd didn't disturb it. After the traffic fizzled out in the evening, two teams began driving the elephants safely," he said. According to DFO, the two elephants were part of the herd of four which was camping in Itki on Wednesday. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/elephants-enter-factory-in-ratu-send-locals-foresters-in-a-tizzy/articleshow/119953486.cms