After a six-day rescue operation, the state forest department on Tuesday caught the full grown Royal Bengal tiger that had strayed into a village in Kultali in the Sundarbans. Forest officials involved in the effort said that it was rescued from the forest near Sheikhpara area of Maryganj-2 in Kultali on Tuesday morning.
Forest officials also called firefighters for the rescue operation. Firefighters used jets on Tuesday morning to spray cold water into the dense forest to get the big cat out of its hiding place. Forest officials said that they had once seen the tiger during the search operation but it disappeared.
Rescuers brought down the big cat with the help of a drone. The forest officials entered the dense forest and waited for the tiger to climb the tree. As soon as the big cat appeared, they fired tranquilizer shots at its feet and were successful in subduing it.