Hyderabad, Aug. 3 -- Devotees of Swasthishri Jinsen Bhattarak Pattacharya Mahaswami Sanstha, a religious body in Maharashtra's Kolhapur, bid an emotional farewell to their temple elephant, which was shifted to Anant Ambani-owned Vantara in Gujarat's Jamnagar district.

The 36-year-old female elephant, Mahadevi alias Madhuri, was handed over the pachyderm to Radhe Krishna Elephant Welfare Trust run by Vantara, after the Supreme Court dismissed to quash the Bombay High Court's order.

On July 16, the high court ordered Mahadevi to be rehabilitated at Vantara's facility, after concerns raised by an NGO with the Maharashtra Forest Department and the Supreme Court-appointed High-Powered Committee (HPC) on her "deteriorated health and psycholog...