In affidavit filed before HC, state flags statutory limitations its forest officers face in conducting effective probe of organised wildlife crime, adding it has taken matter to Centre.
Supreme Court-constituted Central Empowered Committee submitted startling findings to bench, month after tigress & her 4 cubs were poisoned to death by villagers.
The killing of five tigers in Karnataka's MM Hills wildlife sanctuary marks the highest single-day death toll in India since Project Tiger began in 1973. They died of poisoning.
In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.
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