Fear gripped those having bad memories of crop destruction in Jharkhand as hundreds of elephants are about to return on their annual migration sojourn. In November, a herd of elephants attacked a Jharkhand village in the morning and trampled a woman and her son to death. A rampaging elephant killed five persons, including a woman and a child, in a village under Bishunpur block of Gumla district in December. These are a few instances of tusker menace in the last year. After the monsoon, herds of wild elephants move out to the nearby forests and migrate out to Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. There are fourteen intra and inter-State migratory routes of the elephants. They return to the region in search of food during February-March. In the quest of relocating themselves in the jungles of higher latitudes of the State i.e. in Hazaribagh district, they are causing maximum man-elephant conflicts.