The state forest department had deployed several measures to locate the wildcat and capture it. However, the officials had been missing their target in dawn and dusk.

The quadruped has been on run by using its knowledge of the terrain and the search and efforts to capture it had hit the third week.

Animal rights body People For Cattle in India (PFCI) has moved Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Madras High Court and sought a directive not to kill the wandering predator. 

They had missed the tiger in every attempt, which had finally come to the development where the top wildlife official had ordered the ground teams to kill the tiger.