Raju, an aged elephant, is estimated to have been sold at least 27 times, moving from owner to owner. After 50 years of living in humiliation, misery, and starvation, he cried tears of relief and joy when he was finally freed in an incredible rescue operation in the summer of 2014.
Raju was believed to have been captured as a baby and held in chains, beaten and abused for 50 long years, changing hands 27 times during his life, each owner extracting the maximum out of this poor mute-and-timid giant. He was starved, abused, and kept tied up with spiked chains that bore into his flesh.
