Shafat Ali Khan

Avni's killing: Maneka Gandhi writes to Devendra Fadnavis, asks him to 'remove' Sudhir Mungantiwar as forest minister

On Sunday, Maneka Gandhi had targeted the Maharashtra government for "illegally" murdering Avni. She had also questioned its decision to hire sharp-shooter Shafat Ali Khan, a "criminal", for the job.

Shafat Ali Khan, private hunter tasked with 'taking down' tigress Avni, has history of run-ins with animal conservationists

The decision to seek Khan's services to shoot Avni dead had angered animal rights activists before the death of the tigress and led to an even stronger condemnation after she was killed.

Avni's murder a straight case of crime, says Maneka Gandhi; minister to take up tigress' killing with Devendra Fadnavis

Avni, the tigress, was killed in an operation on Friday night in the forests of Maharashtra's Yavatmal district . Shooter Asgar Ali pulled the trigger.

Tigress Avni killed: Farce of a hunt ends as 'man-eater' finally put down, but question of her cubs looms large

Conservation cannot be romanticised for the sake of one animal, but shooting dead a new mother whose cubs are yet to be weaned off cannot be the answer

'Man-eater' tigress Avni killed in Yavatmal after 3-month chase that included drones, hand-gliders, sniffer dogs, elephants

Tigress Avni (T1) believed to be responsible for the deaths of 13 people over the last two years, was killed in Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Friday, after a three-month long change that involved 150 forest department officials, drones, elephants, sniffer dogs and expert shooters