Tiger in my room! Family wakes up to striped guest
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Purulia/Kolkata: Puran Mahto had barely got out of bed on Wednesday morning when his eldest daughter rushed into his room, alerting him about an uninvited visitor taking a nap on a bed in their three-bedroom household — one with yellow coat with black stripes.
A chill ran down Puran's spine but before his senses got clouded, he remembered that a relative's 11-year-old daughter was sleeping in the same room.
The 55-year-old farmer rushed out of his room, tiptoed into the third bedroom, awakened the little girl while covering her mouth and took her to the next room where his other daughters were sleeping. He woke them up and had barely moved the three girls into his own room when the tiger entered the second room through a window.
Puran's heart missed a beat but he crawled out of the room and locked it from outside. For the next 12 hours, the big cat would stay in the little house in Jharkhand's Mardu, off the banks of the Subarnarekha.
The Silli block village is situated barely 500m from the Bengal border.
With weather playing spoilsport, however, the rescue operation could start only around 4pm. Two teams — from Ranchi forest division and Palamau Tiger Reserve — led the efforts.
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Puran's house was surrounded with nets and prohibitory orders were imposed to check gatherings at the site. The door was unlocked and members of the forest teams placed a trap cage — fitted to a rescue van — in front of the house to lure the big cat.
"Even before placing the bait, the tiger entered the cage. As it was growling and moving inside the iron cage, officials decided to tranquillise it. It was darted twice and around 6.45pm, the rescue team started for Ranchi," said an official.
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The 5-year-old tiger, probably on its way to Purulia's Jhalda range, is believed to be the same that has been moving between Jharkhand and Bengal's Purulia since Jan. Palamau field director SR Natesh said: "This is in all likelihood the tiger clicked earlier in Palamau and also in Dalma and Bengal's Purulia. We have a photo ID. We will release the tiger in Palamau." Ranchi DFO Shrikant Verma, however, said only DNA tests could confirm if it was the same tiger.
Jharkhand's chief wildlife warden Paritosh Upadhyay said: "If the tiger is fit, we have plans to release it in the wild with a radio collar in consultation with National Tiger Conservation Authority."
Purulia DFO Anjan Guha said they were in touch with their counterparts in Jharkhand. "It seems it was heading towards Jhalda but could not cross the turbulent Subarnarekha waters," he added.
From Jharkhand's Palamau Tiger Reserve, one forest corridor goes to Purulia's Raika Hills via Chandil and Dalma. The tiger had taken the route earlier this year. The other corridor is via Jharkhand's Hazaribagh and Ranchi divisions to Purulia's Jhalda-Kotshila, which it was exploring. The tiger clicked in Raika Hills this Jan was photographed in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur forest division in April 2024 and then in Palamau in May-June 2024.
After Purulia, the tiger was clicked in Jharkhand's Dalma.
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