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The tigress that strayed out of the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve on Friday was tranquilised and subsequently captured by Forest Department officials on Saturday. However,the animal suffering from poor eyesight managed to injure two more persons past midnight. 8216;
The tigress had strayed out of the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve TATR in Chandrapur district and had injured one of the several onlookers from the nearby Satara village when he had tried to get close to her. Hundreds of people had thronged the place and had also beaten up two forest staffers RFO Umesh Dhotekar and Forester B K Tupe after the attack on one Janardan Vaidya.
Meanwhile,a large police posse led by Additional SP S N Sonone arrived on the scene from Chandrapur to control the crowd even as Assistant Conservator of Forest Kishore Mishrikotkar managed to tranquilise the animal. The tigress was then put inside a cage after a check-up and was taken to the reserve. 8220;Tomorrow,another senior veterinarian will check her and then it will be decided whether she has to be shifted to Nagpur8217;s Maharajbagh Zoo,8221; Thakre said.
NTCA seeks report
NAGPUR: Taking note of the news report on the tigress in The Indian Express ,the National Tiger Conservation Authority NTCA has sought the constitution of a committee of two veterinary doctors and wildlife activist Kishore Rithe to give advice in the matter. 8220;In case of physical deformity and incapacitation,the trapped animal may not be released back in the wild considering the risk of man-animal conflict in the area,8221; Member-Secretary Rajesh Gopal has said in a letter addressed to Maharashtra Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Wildlife A K Joshi.
