Pilibhit/Lakhimpur Kheri: A day after residents of Chaltua village ran a tractor over a 10-year-old tigress inside the core area of Dudhwa tiger reserve (DTR) and later beat her to death, the forest department has lodged an FIR against six named and a few unidentified villagers in Pilibhit on Monday. Meanwhile, the panel of doctors who conducted autopsy on the tigress said that multiple incised and stabbed wounds caused her traumatic shock and death.Following a complaint filed by a forest guard, Mohan Ram, posted in Mailani forest area of DTR, an FIR has been lodged against the accused under IPC’s sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to any public servant in the discharge of his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke the breach of peace), 427 (committing mischief and thereby causes loss or damage to the amount of fifty rupees or upwards), 342 (wrongful confinement of any person) and sections 9, 27, 31, 51 (1) of the Wildlife Protection Act.“The accused are on the run but police have formed special teams to trace and arrest them,” said Atar Singh, station house officer, Seramau North police station.A team of four veterinarians belonging to Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Wildlife Trust of India, Lucknow zoo and animal husbandry department conducted post-mortem of the tigress and said multiple incised and stabbed wounds caused traumatic shock and death of the big cat.“It was also found that the killers had attempted to break the big cat’s canines and remove the nails from its paws. Four porcupine quills were also recovered from the nasal cavity of the tigress which had caused parasitic infection due to which the tigress was ill,” said Ramesh Pandey, field director, DTR.Principal chief conservator of forests Pawan Kumar and chief conservator eco-tourism Sanjay Srivastava had also arrived in Dudhwa and the autopsy was completed in their presence.

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