Ponnampet: Forest Department officials, who were hoping to tranquillise and capture or kill the male tiger that had killed three persons and badly injured another in South Kodagu on the fringes of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, have not been able to do so till now as the tiger has remained elusive and quick in its move from one place to another.
Cattle deaths have continued even as the operation to capture the tiger has crossed 25 days. Though the big cat has been spotted in one of the camera traps set up by the Forest Department, the tiger has been giving the officials the slip. It is not even coming anywhere near the cage set up by the Department. The big cat was not even spotted near a couple of livestock tied amidst coffee plants as bait.
