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Most of the officials deputed to kill the tiger, meanwhile, have left the jungles. Senior forest officials A N Singh and P P Singh have moved to villages on the periphery of Dudhwa to take up another operation to kill a tiger which has been also been declared a maneater.
Wildlife expert Utkarsh Shukla and tiger expert Mahender Singh have also left the area. Only three had stayed behind in Faizabad — tiger expert Nawab Shafaat Ali Khan of Hyderabad, Range Officer Jawed Ahmad and Deputy Ranger Sanjay Srivastava.
Faizabad District Forest Officer O P Singh said: “I am superivising the operations. We have been on the right track all along. The tiger was hit last Saturday. Fresh blood was noticed for at least three kilometers inside the forest.”
He added that the tiger has hidden itself in the thick lantana bushes that provide a good camouflage. “But we are not giving up and our teams will get the big cat soon, dead or alive”. The animal has been giving sleepless nights to Forest Department officials since it strayed out of the Pilibhit jungles in November 2008. It moved across several districts — travelling over 400 km — before reaching Faizabad over two months ago.
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