PETA says Indian elephant still being abused despite pleas by Paul McCartney

NEW DELHI – An animal rights group says a 14-year-old elephant is still being abused despite a 2012 appeal by former Beatle Paul McCartney.

The Indian government had ordered the elephant, named Sunder, returned to the wild after McCartney highlighted its plight during a 2012 trip to India.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says a local politician instead took Sunder home and shackled him outside a poultry shed. The group released a video that it said showed Sunder in December, writhing in pain and struggling to stand as a handler struck him with a pole.

Calls to the local politician were not immediately returned.

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