A group of students who were on a bike saw that ferocious animal with burning eyes. They left their bike and ran for cover. The foresters were informed about its presence around the campus. The teachers, students and their parents spent sleepless nights the day it was seen on the premises of the prestigious technical institute.
Bhopal: A tiger strayed into the woody campus of the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) located in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh last week. A group of students who were on a bike saw that ferocious animal with burning eyes. They left their bike and ran for cover. The foresters were informed about its presence around the campus. The teachers, students and their parents spent sleepless nights the day it was seen on the premises of the prestigious technical institute.
They, however, heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday when the big cat named fell into the foresters’ trap, a forest official said. But it kept the forest officials on tenterhooks. This was the second big cat which entered the campus of the institute spread over 650 acres surrounded by woods. Besides playing hide and seek with the foresters, the tiger killed two cows and attacked two other livestock.
On October 3, another tiger, sneaked into the campus, but it left the campus, the official said, adding that the tiger captured on Sunday was the other big cat that had entered the institute last week, possibly on October 8-9. According to the official, the feline entered one of the three cages in which a bait was kept. It will be released into the Satpura tiger reserve in Narmadapuram, the official said.
According to Bhopal divisional forest officer Alok Pathak, the tiger that was caught on Sunday was the same as the one that entered the institute on October 3. Pathak further said that the tiger named T-123-4 had entered the campus of the institute on that day. Officials said that tigers often enter the MANIT campus from Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary in Raisen and Sehore districts close to Bhopal.
