These water tanks were once used by priests in the temples to draw water for the first pooja of the day. But over the years they had turned into garbage dumps.
This operation was a model for how to deal with similar situations in the future, and brings with it the renewed possibility of peaceful human-animal interaction.
Meena had been walking back home from a birthday party on Sunday night when two men accosted her on their bike with the intention of snatching her smartphone.