2 tigers prowled on MANIT campus

Forest officials said a tiger named T-123-4 believed to have left the MANIT campus two days ago, while the second tiger got trapped during routine inspection. It was tranquilised and sent to Satpura Tiger Reserve. 

A tiger that entered the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology's (MANIT) campus in Bhopal about a week ago has been caught. This is the second wild cat to have strayed into the institute. Earlier, a tiger named T-123-4 sneaked into the institute on October 3, killed two cows and attacked two other bovines. It is believed to have left the campus two days ago, a forest official said. 

“The tiger captured on Sunday is the other big cat that had entered the institute last week. It ventured into the institute possibly on October 8-9. It walked into one of the three cages put up with baits on the campus. We are going to release the feline in the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Narmadapuram,” Bhopal Divisional Forest Officer Alok Pathak said. 

“It is not the one that had entered the institute on October 3. We feel that tiger T-123-4 that sneaked into the institute on October 3 left the campus two days ago,” Pathak said. 

The official said 16 cameras have been installed in the institute and around 50 personnel are still keeping a watch on the campus. 

Mid-term break for 5,400 UG students 

After T-123-4 was caught on cameras six-seven days ago, the institute had announced a mid-term break for around 5,400 undergraduate students from October 11 to 30. Students get such breaks in December, its public relations officer Dr. Amit Ojha said. However, the institute is holding classes for around 600 postgraduate students after assurance from forest officials that the tiger had been barricaded in the forested area of the campus, he said. 

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