NILGIRIS: A five-year-old male sloth bear was fatally electrocuted after it came in contact with an overhead power cable at a tea garden in Nonsuch near Coonoor on Thursday night.
The animal got electrocuted and fell to the ground when it climbed an electric pole to reach out for a beehive.
The land belonged to Varadharaj, who had retired from the Army. Though the animal was electrocuted on Thursday evening, a postmortem could not be carried out the same day, and was scheduled for Saturday morning.
