Chamarajanagar, Oct. 4 -- Just months after a tigress and her four cubs were killed by poisoning, the forest staff, while on a regular beat at Hanur Range of Male Mahadeshwara (MM Hills) Wildlife Sanctuary, have found the carcass of the a tiger, brutally hunted, dismembered and buried under soil near Pachchedoddi village on Oct. 2.

The tiger, said to be a 12-year-male, was cut into three pieces and was buried in different place. On noticing the tiger's body, the foresters on beat, informed the senior officials, who rushed to the spot and conducted an investigation during which they found the tiger's head, shoulders and forelimbs while the rest of the body was missing.

On further search, the Forest officials found the remaining parts of ...