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A tiger from Madhya Pradesh’s Satpura Tiger Reserve (STR) has been allegedly poisoned to decease starring to apprehension of 5 radical successful the case, officials said connected Saturday (March 28, 2026).
According to officials, the decomposed assemblage of the pistillate tiger was recovered buried extracurricular the Reserve’s bound successful the Sangakheda scope of the West Chhindwara Division aft which the wood officials swung into action.
Speaking to The Hindu, Satpura Field Director Rakhi Nanda said that the tiger had been rehabilitated from the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve successful 2018 and had setup its territory extracurricular the STR boundaries. The tiger was wearing a vigor collar for monitoring.
Ms. Nanda said that the tiger had killed the main accused’s oxen aft which helium on with immoderate different locals mixed urea successful the kill.
“The accused is besides progressive successful amerciable opium cultivation and arsenic per the interrogation, helium was frightened that the wood teams whitethorn scope his workplace portion tracing the animal’s collar which is wherefore helium killed the tiger,” she said, adding that the accused besides burnt the collar.
The authoritative said that the accused person been remanded to judicial custody.
Wildlife activistic Ajay Dubey, however, alleges negligence connected the portion of wood officials and claims that the collar had been stationary since March 3.
“Typically, an alert is issued if a collared tiger hasn’t moved for 8 hours but successful this case, nary enactment was taken for weeks. And adjacent if a tiger kills cattle, it is the work of the wood section to make consciousness that the proprietor volition beryllium fixed compensation,” helium said.
“What is the constituent of specified costly exertion if it does not assistance support animals,” Mr. Dubey added.
He besides raised suspicions that “some assemblage parts were missing from the decomposed carcass”.
Ms. Nanda, however, said that since the tiger had “well established” its territory, regular monitoring done collar had been stopped.
“We had already written to the World Wild Fund (India) to get it removed and had gotten a confirmation connected the aforesaid connected March 19 and since present the collars tin besides beryllium removed remotely, we assumed that it had been dropped,” she said.
“Still, we sent a squad to cheque connected the tiger and retrieve the collar connected March 25 aft which we recovered the assemblage connected March 27 morning,” she said, adding that the accused were held wrong hours.
