“We have set up an independent committee which will probe what went wrong in Panna. It will also probe all tiger deaths in MP,” Principal Chief Conservator of Forests PB Gangopadhyay told The Indian Express. Earlier this year, MP moved two tigresses to Panna, in a bid to repopulate the reserve.
It also asked the MoEF for permission to translocate a male tiger to the reserve, a tacit admission that there were no tigers left in Panna.