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(08-20-2014, 09:46 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: Aug,19,2014...
one-year-old tiger, which got trapped in a goat house,Police said the tiger cub had strayed into a hamlet of Mountanchetti tribe, and entered the goat house and started attacking the goats, early today.Forest department officials rescued It 

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Killer tiger shot dead with AK47....

NAGPUR/CHANDRAPUR: Police sharp shooters shot dead a problematic sub-adult (less than 3-year old) tiger in Chichpalli range of FDCM with AK47 rifles on Tuesday. Conservationists say the shooting was ordered by the state forest chief under political pressure with both, the Congress and BJP, trying to 'make a killing' ahead of state assembly elections in October.

The killing brought some relief to the people of Pombhurna village and its surroundings where seven people had been mauled to death by tigers in six months. But there are doubts if the right tiger was shot.

State's chief wildlife warden Sarjan Bhagat, who ordered the shoot on Monday, said, "It is the same tiger that had mauled to death a villager on August 17 near Dongarhaldi. We matched the earlier camera trap pictures with that of the shot tiger." Bhagat added that of the seven victims, who had ventured deep into the forests, the shot tiger is suspected to have had claimed 4-5.

A tigress with two sub-adult male cubs was frequently sighted in Pombhurna forests in recent times. But Bhagat was firm that no permission would be given to shoot another tiger. "I can't keep giving permission to shoot tigers," he said.

Since Tuesday 11am, the tiger was being tracked and it was finally cornered and shot dead near Dongarhaldi around 6.30pm. The shooters fired over 30-33 rounds with AK47 rifles killing the tiger on the spot.

Its carcass was immediately shifted to Chandrapur after a huge mob gathered at the spot. Post-mortem and other formalities of the tiger will be carried out on Wednesday morning.

Surprisingly, the forest officials are themselves not sure whether the shot tiger had killed all the seven villagers. This is against the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) protocol which directs to first identify the problem animal.

According to team members, the tracking team found pugmarks of the tiger in a farm and followed them. The big cat, lurking in thick foliage, charged at the grazing cattle in the field and was spotted by the trackers. Before they could corner it, the tiger disappeared in the thick forest.

"All the teams tracking the tiger were immediately summoned to the spot. The shooters and trackers were then split into three teams. Officials laid a bait in the farm to lure the tiger and deployed a team of shooters there. Two other teams were dispatched to track the tiger," said one of the team members involved in the operation.

Chandrapur chief conservator of forests (CCF) Sanjay Thakre said the problem tiger was aggressive and it had tried to attack the tracking teams thrice during the day. The teams had captured a video and pictures of the tiger earlier. Its stripe pattern was matched with the pictures of the tiger singled as man-eater. "Once we were sure about the identity, shooters were dispatched to kill it," he said.

The tiger was again spotted at around 5pm in the fields near Dongarhaldi. After some farm labourers started shouting on seeing the tiger, it moved into an adjacent forest patch.

"During the pursuit, a tranquillizing expert tried to dart the tiger but they never got on the broader side of the animal. Finally, while the tiger was lurking in a bamboo foliage in FDCM compartment number 516, Thakre, who was himself leading the team, ordered the shooters to fire at the tiger. They fired indiscriminately, killing the tiger on the spot," said one of the members.

Earlier, in the morning, BJP MLA from Ballarshah Sudhir Mungantiwar marched to the CCF's office with his supporters, demanding that the tiger be shot. In Pombhurna, former Congress MP Naresh Pugalia too launched a dharna for the same.

"In Pombhurna, the constituency of Mungantiwar, several posters displayed the MLA on one side and tiger on the other. All this indicated how serious the BJP leader was to save our national animal. It was all to gain sympathy of people ahead of elections. It is really shocking. Tigers do not deserve such a death. It was shot as it doesn't have votes," said Suresh Chopne of Green Planet, Chandrapur. "I'm planning to file a PIL," he added. (Source: TOI, Via: SST, Representational Picture).

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This is pure politics.
These politicians will do anything to gain sympathy, power, money and they were least bothered about tiger conservation.

May the tiger's soul RIP.

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