thrissur two main accused in the recent killing of a wild tusker and the clandestine burial of its carcass at vazhakode near wadakkanchery surrendered before forest officials on thursday they are maniyanchira roy joseph 55 from whose farm the carcass of the elephant was exhumed and his associate muthupurakkal jobi joy 47 who is the fourth accused in the case according to thrissur dfo the duo had surrendered before the forest officials at machad they have been taken into custody and will be produced before the court on friday he saidthe tusker was electrocuted and its carcass was buried in an abandoned well in the farm of joseph reportedly on june 15 the elephant had reportedly fallen in the well joseph and his associates buried the carcass with the help of his friends from pala the farmer and his associates have claimed that they laid an electric trap to catch animals like wild boar and the elephant had come in contact with the live wire accidentallythe officials had earlier nabbed two accused akhil mohan and vinayan in the case in which the forest department has listed 11 accused it was mohans arrest in connection with an ivory trade case from malayattoor early this month which led to the unearthing of the killing of the elephant he had reportedly disclosed to the officials that the ivory piece he had sold was cut from the tusker which was killedthe forest range officials at machad also had intelligence input about the killing of the elephant and they could exhume the carcass of the elephant mainly skeleton pieces devoid of much flesh or skin on july 14joseph and his associates had been moving cautiously soon after the killing of the elephant but they went into complete hiding after mohan was arrested they had travelled to different places like goa kasaragod kannur and kottayamforest officials had put pressure on the accused through various quarters to persuade them to surrender the strategy seems to have worked in spite of the various constraints like the complexities in getting the tower locations of the accused