LUCKNOW: Nawab Shafat Ali Khan has been called for the second time in Uttar Pradesh by the forest department to control a tiger. On February 24, 2009, Nawab Shafat Ali Khan killed a man-eating tigress at Faizabad that was prowling in the jungle of Rudauli forest range for two months and had claimed seven human lives.
According to Forest department sources, Nawab Shafat Ali Khan reached Rahmankheda on Friday on invitation of Ashok Mishra, DFO of Avadh forest range and joined the operation to tranquilise the tiger along with forest department and WTA officials.
The tiger has been prowling for the last one month in the thorny bushes of Central India Subtropical Horticulture farm situated at Rahmankheda are adjacent to Lucknow city, and now the forest department has sought the help of renowned tiger shooter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan of Hyderabad to control and capture the tiger.
This young tiger of 4 years strayed away from his natural habitat of the jungle of Pilibhit forest range, and is roaming in the dense vegetation of the farm land belong to agriculture ministry.
Forest department officials along with the activists of Wild Life Trust of India are trying to capture this tiger for the last one month, but in every attempt they were unsuccessful.
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