A farmer, who was grazing cattle on the forest periphery at Hadanuru village bordering Bandipur Tiger Reserve, was injured on Thursday in what is alleged to be an animal attack and this resulted in tension in the village.
The local community manhandled the Forest Department staff who went there upon learning of the incident. They were assaulted and abused following which a complaint was lodged at Saraguru police station.
The farmer, identified as Prasanna, was grazing the cattle ignoring the Forest Department’s plea to the local people not to venture close to the jungles as combing operation was on to trap and tranquillise the tiger which had killed Puttaswamy Gowda on Sunday.
