Overview

• Forest officials have apprehended 30 villagers, remanding 12 suspects, including four prime accused, in connection with the poaching of tigress K8 near Yellur village on March 15.
• The tigress was killed using an electrified snare powered by a high-tension line, with suspects admitting to trafficking her body parts for profit.
• Authorities seized the tigress's skin, nails, and other body parts, matching the skin pattern to K8, a vital breeding tigress in the Kagaznagar division.
• K8, a seven-year-old tigress pregnant at the time of her death, had previously given birth to three cubs and was critical to local tiger conservation efforts.
• Three prime suspects remain at large, while doubts have been raised over the electrocution method due to the absence of burn marks on the seized skin.