I looked up one state where the article said this sort of attack is common... Chhattisgarh state. I doubt the Maoists who kill police are any friendlier to elephants:
Maoists kill 50 Indian policemen, BBC ^ | Thursday, March 15, 2007 The Maoists launched a co-ordinated assault Maoist rebels have attacked a security post in central India, killing 50 police officers, police say.The attack, one of the worst in decades of insurgency, happened in the rebel stronghold area of Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh state.
That region is Hindu. In a country of 1 billion, life is cheap. And if they’re poor, animal life even more so. Except for cows.