A 50-year-old elephant is finally free after being forced to beg for four decades on the streets of India and after having walked over thousands of miles with his hind legs bound by spiked chains. The elephant begged walking in shackles across the Indian capital city of Delhi and in the states of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and finally in Rajasthan, where the state’s forest department seized the animal from his owner on the grounds of cruelty and neglect. The tragic ordeal of the bull elephant, named Jai, which means “victory” in Hindi, came to an end when the Rajasthan Forest Department (RFD) followed up on allegations of mistreatment, the Wildlife SOS told The Epoch Times in a statement. The Wildlife SOS, a rescue and rehabilitation nonprofit, was contacted by RFD after seizing Jai from his owners; the organization immediately offered the suffering jumbo treatment and safe refuge. An elephant care …