Forest department officials in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district said the tigress was yesterday shot dead at a village where it was hiding in a sugarcane field and nursing bullet wounds she suffered the previous day.
It was believed to have killed two people and injured another five, causing panic among farmers who were too afraid to harvest crops from their fields.
The creature is said to have frequented agricultural areas, leaving farmers too scared to harvest their crops.
Officials added that they had been forced to kill the animal after numerous efforts to tranquilise it had failed.
The death marks the first time such a sophisticated search has been used to locate a tiger.
Villagers reportedly celebrated the death of the creature by bursting crackers.
