Forest officers from the Bandipur Tiger Reserve on Friday arrested a person on whose farm a five-year-old tiger had allegedly died of electrocution. They mentioned the person, Rechappa S, had dumped the tiger carcass in a pond with the assistance of 5 others, who’re but to be arrested.
“A decomposed carcass of a tiger was discovered floating within the Malliahkattekere lake within the Kundukere vary of Bandipur Forest within the Gundlupet taluk on February 7. An in depth investigation was performed on February 23, and Rechappa S was interrogated. It was discovered that the accused had put in {an electrical} fence on his farm, with which the tiger got here in touch and died. With a view to disguise the incident, the carcass of the tiger was dumped within the lake. Rechappa took the assistance of 5 others. He was arrested and produced earlier than a courtroom on Friday. The 5 others are but to be arrested,” an announcement from the tiger reserve mentioned.
The pond was 5 ft deep. When officers lifted the carcass from the pond for conducting a postmortem, they discovered that its neck and legs had been tied to a boulder with a wire. The tiger’s visceral samples had been despatched to forensic labs in Mysuru and Bengaluru.
It was earlier suspected that the tiger was poisoned and dumped within the pond.
