CHANDRAPUR: The officials of Bhadrawati forest range on Thursday arrested three more accused in the poaching of tiger a in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) way back in 2008. They had on Wednesday recovered the remains of a poached tiger at the border of TATR, near village Doni, after an accused Shalik Gedam pointed out the spot.
The probe into the poachers gang was reinitiated some days back after the arrest of the main accused Shalik Gedam, who was absconding for the last one-and-a-half years. Officials had recovered six-and-a-half kilogram of tiger bones and a nail buried in the ground near a nullah along TATR border on Wednesday. Gedam also named three accomplices and forest officials arrested them on Thursday.
DCF, Chandrapur forest division, MM Kulkarni confirmed the arrests, but he did not gave names or other details. Forest officials are interrogating the three to recover the skin and seven missing nails of the poached tiger.
Meanwhile, authorities of TATR on Thursday said the poached tiger might have been an inhabitant of TATR. ACF Ajay Pillariseth said investigations suggests it could be the tiger which moved in and out of the tiger reserve. "The poaching spot is only a couple of metres away from the tiger reserve, hence the chances of poached tiger belonging to TATR cannot be ruled out. We have initiated investigations and are trying to trace which tiger went missing in that period," he said.
Pillariseth said tigers with territory along the border often move in and out of the tiger reserve, hence it is difficult to keep tabs on them. He speculated that the poached beast might be a tigress which had killed a person from Doni in January 2008.
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