A day after a farmer was mauled to demise by a tiger in Saragur taluk underneath Mysuru district close to the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre Monday mentioned his division would act in opposition to officers if negligence was present in taking preventive measures.
He made the comment whereas responding to complaints that Forest Division officers did not arrange a cage to seize the tiger regardless of locals alerting them concerning the feline.
The minister additionally objected to the choice of locals to convey the physique of the deceased farmer to Mysuru, when a autopsy was carried out at Saragur itself. “We’ll examine this and take crucial steps,” he informed reporters.
The farmer, recognized as Rajashekara, 54, was killed by the tiger when he was herding his cattle at Mulluru, bordering the Reserve. In a launch issued the identical day, the minister had warned individuals of the hazards of herding animals close to the reserve forests and requested them to be cautious about assaults from tigers, leopards, elephants and different wild animals.
The assault on the farmer comes every week after one other Karnataka farmer suffered everlasting lack of imaginative and prescient owing to a tiger assault. Forest officers had been finishing up a combing operation close to HD Kote when the sufferer was attacked by the tiger.