Bhubaneswar: The govt on Sunday suspended two forest department personnel for dereliction of duty and arrested a villager in connection with the electrocution of a female elephant and her calf near Kamakshyanagar in Dhenkanal district.Dhenkanal DFO Lalit Patra said Subhendu Bhuiyan, forester of the Anlabereni section, and Manasmita Barala, forest guard of the Kadalipala beat, under the forest division, were suspended after their negligence was proven. Kumara Naik (51), a resident of Godaribili village, was arrested allegedly for illegally charging the solar fence, with which the elephants came into contact, Patra added.The adult elephant and its calf allegedly came into contact with a live electric wire connected to the illegally charged solar fence near a paddy field, 15 km from Dhenkanal town, on Saturday morning. Both the animals died on the spot.Forest officials said the electrified fencing was allegedly intended to kill wild animals hunted for bush meat.Forest authorities said a detailed inquiry is underway to establish the exact circumstances leading to the deaths and to examine whether others were involved in installing or maintaining the illegal power connection.The deaths of the elephants occurred less than a week after a 20-year-old tusker was electrocuted near Similipal Tiger Reserve under the Baripada forest division. In that case, too, officials found that an unregulated solar fence around a paddy field had been illegally connected to electricity, resulting in the elephant’s death.