With controversial hunter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan out of the operation to hunt down rogue tigress T1, the focus is on the authorities to use state staff and machinery to capture the animal and her cubs.

Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar told mid-day on Friday, that the nawab is officially out of the operation, as he had been sent back on the orders of union minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi. Mungantiwar wants the operation to capture the tigress speeded up, as the locals are scared.