The Bombay High Court has awarded Rs. 1 lakh compensation to a woman for the trauma of surviving a tiger attack and expressed shock at the casual manner in which forest officials wrote off the bravery.
A 50-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger in Brahmapuri tehsil of Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Sunday afternoon, when he had gone to a forest area along with his mother and wife to collect some wood, an official said.
A 55-year-old woman was mauled to death by a tiger in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on today, while her husband is missing after the attack, a forest department official said.