Tigress Avni shot from behind, says expert

Nagpur: Tigress Avni was shot and killed “when she was facing away” from the gunman hired by the Maharashtra government, the report of an independent government-appointed expert revealed here on Monday.

The detailed analytical report has been prepared by Wildlife Biologist Milind Pariwakam of the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) who attended Avni’s autopsy as a representative of Maharashtra’s Principal Chief Conservator of Forests.

“Bullet trajectory as inferred from the post-mortem observations shows that the animal was facing away from the person who fired the bullet,” Pariwakam has stated in the report, (IANS)

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