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Tigress Avni killing: Was T1 looking away when it was shot?
Updated On: 12 November, 2018 05:08 PM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore and Ranjeet Jadhav
Nagpur Based Biologist raises questions over the manner in which the hunt operation of the 'man-eater' tigress was handled
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In the latest twist to the never-ending controversies surrounding the killing of tigress T1 also called Avni, a post-mortem report submitted by Nagpur-based wildlife biologist Milind Pariwakam suggests that the tigress was gunned down in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal this month when it was looking away from the shooter.
The copy of the report which is in possession of mid-day states that the place where the bullet was lodged and the trajectory of the bullet indicates that the animal was facing away from the person who fired the bullet. The report also suggests that the dart found lodged in its body did not show any impact of being " fired from a syringe projector" which means a tranquillizing gun.
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