By NNN-PTI,
Lucknow : Four Railway personnel, including a top official, have been booked after a tiger was run over by a speeding train in Katarnia Ghat wildlife sanctuary in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh state.
An eight-year-old tiger was killed on September five after being hit by passenger train between Majra and Khairatiya railway stations, police said today.
The FIR was registered in Sujauli police station of Bahraich against Divisional Railway Manger Northern Railways, Ashima Singh, Station master, Majhra, Chandrapal Tripathi, driver Subhash Prasad and guard Liyaquat Ali under the Wild Life Conservation Act, they said.
In the last five years, four tigers and a crocodile have been killed after being hit by trains of the Gonda-Mailani rail division that run through the forest area.
There had been a longstanding dispute between the Railways and the Forest Department over the relocation of the railway track from the forest.
The forest department has also asked the Railways to minimise the speed of train to 30 kms per hour in the sanctuary.