Man accused of killing tiger rearrested

Alwar, Jan 19 (PTI) A person, who had escaped from thecustody of forest officials after being nabbed for allegedlykilling a tiger, was today rearrested, forest departmentofficials said here.

"Kailash Gujjar was arrested from near a village earlythis morning. He had escaped yesterday from the custody of theforest officials in Sariska on the pretext of going totoilet," an official said.

Bhagwanya and Kailash Gujjar were involved in the killingof ST-1 tiger in November last year. They were nabbed nearTehla village on Monday.

ST-1, one of the five tigers trans located to thereserve, was poisoned to death and the carcass of the big catwas found on the night on November 14 in Sariska.

The forest officials had last month arrested the mainaccused, Parsadi Gujjar.