NAGAON: Aditya Saikia (60), a resident of Nonoi Bhelaigaon under Nagaon Police Station, was killed in a sudden attack of a stray tiger at his doorstep on Friday morning. Besides, another person identified as Satya Phukan (45), of the same village was also seriously injured in the attack of the tiger. Sources from the locality claimed that the injured Satya Phukan went to a field near the village for feeding his cows when a stray tiger suddenly leaped on him. But some people who were present at the spot rushed there with sticks and shooed the animal away. The victim was left seriously injured. Thereafter the tiger rushed to the residential area and attacked Aditya Saikia. The villagers immediately admitted the injured person to Nagaon Medical College and Hospital.
On being informed, the forest officials as well as other forest personnel from Nagaon forest range office rushed to the village and tried to locate the tiger. But the forest officials as well as other forest squad could not locate or trace the tiger till the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile the incident, Narendra Kr Shah, Nagaon District Commissioner through an official notification on Friday afternoon, promulgated CrPC 144 with immediate effect in the greater Nonoi areas covering Jalahgaon, Uzaragaon, Sutargaon, Bhelaigaon, Nonoi Namakuri, Niz Pakhimoria, etc until further notification and strictly prohibited assembly of five persons or more, carrying firearms, lethal weapons, bows and arrows and shouting or making loud noises in those areas.
Violation of this restrictions or prohibitory order will lead to lawful action under sections 188, the notification added. Restrictions will be exempted from the purview for police, forest personnel and other paramilitary forces. While speaking to some local media persons, the local people said that the tiger was a matured one and it was the first time that they witnessed a large tiger in the areas.
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