A Tiger in the Supreme Court.

PositionTHE LAW - Brief article

Should forest rangers hunt down a man-eating tiger? That question was at the center of a Supreme Court case in India last month. Because tigers are endangered, killing them in India requires special permission. Forest rangers argued that a five-year-old tigress, named T-l, had killed 13 people in central India 1 in the past two years, and they needed to hunt her to protect villagers. But conservationists said T-l had killed only in self-defense when people ventured into her territory. The Court ruled ' that the hunt could go on, but the rangers should try their best to capture T-l and...

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