Guwahati, Nov. 20: Forest department personnel located the domestic elephant, which has been in a state of musth from November 14 and gone on the rampage ever since, in the Kalajan area in Golaghat district along the foothills of Nagaland late this afternoon.

The elephant, Dil, which had killed an elderly man and attacked a CRPF camp yesterday in Golaghat district of Assam, was tranquilized by experts from Kaziranga National Park with help from forest and security personnel today.

A forest department official in Jorhat said experts from national park had carried out the drive to tranquilize the animal with the help of forest and security personnel.

Last evening, the animal was spotted in the Panikhaiti area of Jorhat district.

Although Kalajan falls under Golaghat district, the staff belonging to the Jorhat forest department carried out today’s operation.

“We have chained the elephant to a tree so that it cannot get free again,” the forest official said.

He said there were several injury marks on the elephant but it could not be ascertained whether the marks were caused by bullets.

“By the time we located and tranquilized the elephant, darkness had set in. We could not ascertain whether these were bullet injuries,” he said.

The elephant, which is in a state of musth, had wreaked havoc in both Golaghat and Jorhat districts bordering Nagaland since it set itself free on the night of November 14.

Apart from damaging several houses, it had also killed a villager, damaged a vehicle and attacked a CRPF camp. The jawans based at the camp at Kalajan allegedly shot at the elephant yesterday when it attacked the camp.

The CRPF, however, claimed that the jawans at the camp only fired in the air to scare off the “mad” elephant.

The official said that the elephant would be kept tied till the “musth period” got over.

“It would behave normally after its musth gets over,” the official said.

The elephant belongs to Haru Chutia of Arnapurna village under Borholla police station in Jorhat district.