The Maharashtra Forest Department (FD) is facing flak for bringing controversial trigger-happy shooter, Nawab Shafat Ali Khan, back to the operation to capture tigress T1 and her cubs. After the timely intervention by MP and Union Minister Maneka Gandhi, the FD had officially given him the boot.

Confirming the development, a junior forest department official who is involved in tracking the tigress and her two cubs said, "Nawab Shafat Ali Khan is back in Pandharkawda and at present he is unofficially involved in the operation. He is on standby and will accompany our veterinary teams, with strict instructions that the tigress and her cubs are to be trapped alive.