After continuing the operation for three to four months to capture the tiger that had walked approximately 500 km from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal (southwest of Nagpur) to reach the Solapur and Dharashiv districts, the operation has now been temporarily suspended, as the tiger has remained elusive. For now, forest department officials have decided to continue monitoring its activity using camera traps and regular patrolling.

The tiger had arrived in Dharashiv in December last year. A senior forest department official involved in the operation said, “While monitoring the tiger’s activity, we observed that it is not frequently returning to the kill site, and so we have suspended the operation to capture the tiger. However, we are continuously tracking its movements using camera traps, and our team is patrolling the area where the tiger is present. The tiger is moving in and out of the forest. In the last month, there have been very few cattle kills by the tiger outside the forest, and it is also preying on wild animals inside the forest.”