Villagers Use Elderly As Bait, Release Them As Tiger Prey To Seek Compensation Over Fake Deaths

History has been testifying?in favour of horrible things being done for some money - people have been killed, families have been destroyed, assassination, robbery, murder abductions, the list goes on.?

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We come into this world and embrace tonnes of love from our parents and extended kin, but somehow, something goes wrong as we grow up. Amid all the humdrum of this life, people stop recognising the importance?of love and family.

In a similar fashion, a rather bizarre and utterly disturbing incidence has come to light from villages bordering the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR).?

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Authorities from the region claim that locals have been sending elderly people into the forest to die, as tigers prey, in order to be able to apply for compensation.?

Once they're dead, their bodies are related to the fields and an attack scene is fabricated to claim lakhs in compensation from the government. As these villagers don't get any compensation if someone from the family dies in a reserve, they've ventured into this idea.?

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As a result, there has been a staggering hike in the number of people dying in such a way - 7 deaths reported in the proximity of the Mala forest range alone since February 16.?

The problem has been concluded by Kalim Athar of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. He examined individual cases, looked into tiger attacks and took accounts of locals before coming to any judgment. What's surprising in this situation is that elders were willingly participating in the whole affair.?

"They think that since they can't get resources from the forest, this is the only way their families can escape poverty," farmer Jarnail Singh, 60, told TOI.?