KOCHI: The court has said that actor Mohanlal will have to face trial in the case related to illegal possession of elephant tusks. The Perumbavoor Magistrate court, which accepted the charge sheet against first accused Mohanlal and others, found that the accused had committed an offence after which it initiated trial proceedings against the accused.

The court has sent summons to Mohanlal and others after considering the occurrence report submitted by the Forest department as a criminal case.

It was Aluva Udhyogamandal native A A Poulose who had approached the high court, seeking to cancel the permission given by the chief forest conservator to Mohanlal to keep elephant tusks with him.

It was after this that the Forest department submitted the charge sheet in the magistrate court.