Chennai: Animal activist based above and people based in Chennai for livestock in India (PFCI) have transferred Madras High Court challenging the decision of the Government of Tamil Nadu to hunt T23 Mudumalai T23 which killed three people in the villages around Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR).
Sangeeta Dogrra has accused that the death is the result of intentional failure in the Department of Forest Department of Tamil Nadu in managing the Human-HAW conflict.
The applicant further alleged that the authorities had issued an order to hunt for tigers under Section 11 (1) (a) Law of Wildlife Protection without following the legal process and without declaring animals as a threat to humans based on scientific studies.
Said that forest authorities must follow and implement even the Supreme Court command related to the conservation of tigers and wildlife, the Applicant wants a court to begin the insulting process of the department.
According to PFCI, the command for hunting tigers is in direct violations of Section 9 of the Law of Wildlife (Protection) that prohibits hunting for wild animals specified in the schedule of laws, which include tigers.
Even when tigers become dangerous for human life in accordance with the standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, under any circumstances a tiger must be eliminated by asking for wildlife (protection) if the animal is not ‘accustomed to causing human death, “PFCI said.” The removal of animals must always be the last choice of Wildlife Warden heads after tiring all the other options available to capture animals of life, “added PFCI.
Therefore, the Petitioner wants a court to call on the record of the October 1 and bend things The same and directs the authorities to capture the tigers remain alive.
The two requests are likely to be taken by the first bench led by the chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee on Monday.
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