A female elephant, allegedly stolen from Jharkhand's Palamu district and sold for Rs 27 lakh, has been rescued from the Chapra district of Bihar, reports quoting the police said in Palamau, Jharkhand.

Narendra Kumar Shukla, a resident of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, had filed a police complaint over the theft of the female elephant ‘Jayamati' from the Chukur area of Jharkhand's Palamu district on September 12.

He claimed that he had bought the elephant at a cost of Rs 40 lakh in Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand.

Manibhushan Prasad, SDPO of Medininagar, said, 

The case of the theft was registered at Sadar police station, and an investigation is underway. 

On Monday, the police received a tip-off that the missing elephant was tracked at Pahadpur in Bihar's Chapra. 

Then, cops made a request to the Bihar Police for assistance. During the course of the probe, it was recovered from Chapra.

No one was arrested in the case, and a search is reportedly underway to nab the culprits.