A tiger and a tigress were found dead near an agricultural field in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district on Monday, apparently due to electrocution.
The incident was reported from the Jaisinghnagar area.
Madhya Pradesh Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) L. Krishnamoorthy said their carcasses were found in the North Shahdol forest area.
The official said that a forest department team was rushed to the spot after receiving the information.
He said preliminary investigations suggested that the tiger died in a territorial fight, while the tigress got electrocuted, adding that the exact cause of their deaths will be confirmed after the forest team completes its probe and postmortems are conducted.
Sources said that a farmer had laid an electric wire around his field to prevent the entry of herbivorous animals that usually eat and damage standing crop, and claimed that both the tiger and the tigress came in contact with the live wire and died from electrocution.
Detailed investigations are underway in the matter.