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Mp high court directs probe into two more tiger deaths at kanha national park

Mp high court directs probe into two more tiger deaths at kanha national park

The Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a probe into two additional tiger deaths at Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The division bench of Chief Justice Alpesh Y Kogje and Justice Vivek Jain gave the State two weeks to submit findings, with the matter listed for hearing on . The public‑interest litigation was filed by an advocate who warned that the recent deaths of tigress T‑141 and her four cubs, tigress T‑122 and tiger T‑220 between March and , raise serious concerns about compliance with statutory safeguards under the National Tiger Conservation Authority framework. The petition relied on communications from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, which said Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) was prevalent among domestic dogs and urged mandatory surveillance, post‑mortem testing and exclusion of stray dogs from buffer zones. The court previously directed the Union and State governments to detail preventive and curative steps and issued an interim order that “immediately start vaccination of the dogs who are moving in that periphery/territory where the tigers move.” The State reported that more than 2,000 dogs have been vaccinated and must now file a progress report on the programme.

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