Bengal Tiger Caught After 16 Hours Of Eluding Sunderbans Forest Personnel
NDTV
Evading capture for 16 hours, the Royal Bengal tiger was hiding in a paddy field after crossing from the nearby Sunderbans Reserve Forest area, into a village in the South 24 Parganas district.
An adult Royal Bengal Tiger, which had strayed into a village in Kultali area of South 24 Parganas district, was trapped inside a cage on Tuesday night after eluding forest personnel and villagers for 16 hours, Forest Minister Jyotipriyo Mallick said.
Since morning, the tiger was hiding in a paddy field after crossing a creek from nearby Sunderbans Reserve Forest area, and several efforts to capture it had failed till evening, a forest official said.
Mr Mallick told PTI "the male tiger will now be checked by vets after being tranquilised tomorrow morning to see whether it has suffered bruises, cuts and then kept under observation at our rescue centre for seven days."
If it does not show any abnormality in behaviour it will be released in the forest, Mr Mallick said.
