The Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition against the shifting of tiger T-24 or Ustad from Ranthambore Reserve Forest to Udaipur’s Biological Park.

The tiger was shifted from Ranthambore after it killed a forest guard on 8^th May. The vacation bench of Justices P.C Pant and Amitav Roy said that they would not interfere with the order of the Rajasthan HC which had dismissed the plea of shift of T-24.

The Environmentalist Chandra Bhal Singh, in his plea had alleged that the wildlife department in Rajasthan had failed to take the requisite permission under section 12 of the Wildlife Protection Act before proceeding to relocate the tiger and hence was illegal.

The PIL also added that the tiger had attacked and killed a forest guard in self defense and a decision to shift it was taken immediately ‘without scientific probe or investigation into the circumstances of the attack.’