The forest department officials on Friday evening released a tiger into a forest near Bonnie Camp.
The big cat had sneaked into Madhabpur and Katamari villages from the Chitori forest under the South 24-Parganas forest division a week ago. It was finally captured by the foresters on Thursday night.
Ajoy Koyal, a villager from Katamari, was injured by the tiger last week when he went to his paddy field. "It pounced on Ajoy and grabbed his right elbow. Before he could understand anything, the tiger started dragging him by his shoulder. Ajoy's neighbour Chittaranjan Sardar, who accompanied him to the paddy field, managed to scare away the tiger with a stick and sickle and rescued Ajoy," said locals.
The tiger, according the locals, had also lifted a goat from a villager's house then. A huge nylon net was hung in the area to separate the villages from the nearby forest and trap cages were also laid. But, the tiger managed to disappear into the woods at that time. Later, the foresters, while patrolling the area, spotted pugmarks of two tigers.
"Actually two big cats — a tiger and a tigress — were holed up in Katamari a week back. While the tigress managed to escape, the tiger was still roaming the area. So, we placed the trap cages this time close to the forests and managed to capture the big cat on Thursday night," said an official.
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