Hasty decisions in labelling T24
aka Ustad as man eater by Tiger expert Mr. Valmiki Thapar. But then being a
tiger expert he would know that the actions of Ustad are not that of a man
eating tiger. He has never stalked or attacked human beings for his meals in
spite of having maximum human intrusions in form of pilgrims going to the
temple on foot. Mr. Valmiki stated that he had insisted that Ustad be put in
zoo after killing of two villagers in 2012 and partially consuming too. Once a
tiger tastes human flesh they start to like the salty meat and thereby start
preferring human flesh and become man eaters. Whereas even though it is
supposedly stated that Ustad has partially consumed human flesh of the human
kills he has not killed humans till recently and that too because he was
surprised by the guard. Now my question
to the expert is “Why did Ustad not kill humans till date from 2012 in spite of
heavy human traffic in his territory?? Why suddenly Ustad is termed dangerous
and need to be put away??
A similar human corollary to the
tiger incident “A burglar enters you home and you would surely take actions to
protect your property and in course of fight kill the person. Are you termed a
killer?? I am sure you would say no but in case of an animal that killed because
man intruded into its space you term it a man eater. This is an unfair
judgement by experts and authorities of RTR!!!
Moreover it is not still conclusive
proved that T24 is responsible for the human kill, for immediately after the
killing of Mr. Ramphal, other guards & a writer who were around noticed another male tiger
there T72 aka Sultan in the vicinity and was suspected of killing the guard.
The blame was shifted on to T24 just because he came back to the spot and was
sniffing the bloodied area…
All felines/ canines are having a
keen sense of smell and yes they would investigate if that smell of blood is in
their territory. Forensic investigation
of the area would have clearly indicated as to what had happened on the
eventful day and which tiger was involved and this was not done, instead
statement made earlier by guards and few other persons were changed few hours
later implicating T24 aka Ustad and the reasons for this change is unknown.
This incident on the whole is quite murky and is filled with so many
controversies and the affect party is the Tiger Ustad who cannot express
himself.
I have seen so many comments
where the person is saying that this being done to safe guard the forest foot
patrol and pilgrims but then are they ensuring the safety of those people by
taking T24 out of the equation now. Who takes the responsibility if the T72 now
kills couple of pilgrims or a forest guard?
We may be armchair activists
without venturing on foot patrols within the forest or know the ground realities,
but then the villagers and the forest guards knew of Ustad’s notoriety and
suspected kills by him yet continued to go about their works without a worry
till date. Why?? (This is a question to expert who stated that T24 has to be
put down)
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