The forest department has yet another challenge to face, with tigress T1's male cub preparing to give them a tough time. Officials suspect that the cub has jumped over the 12-feet-fence of the enclosure set up to trap him, after they found it to be tilted on one side. Though the forest officials have launched a massive search operation to trace the cub, it's going to be a daunting task for the team, given the 70-square-kilometre of difficult terrain in Pandharkawda area they now have to traverse.

Sources believe that a Neelgai might have hit the portion of the fence in water resulting in it getting tilted on one side and creating a passage for the cub to escape. Further, reports regarding a tiger killing cattle in the nearby forest area on Wednesday raised the suspicion. While a team of experts along with elephants would be carrying out the search operation, villagers too have been asked to be vigilant and alert the forest department in case they spot the cub.