It was once a farewell birthday celebration of a colleague at the night time of November 2 and the diarist was once on the venue when a pal from electronic media called to tell that T1 tigress of Pandharkawda, popularly known as Avni, were shot lifeless. The friend asked me to join him at Butibori police station and accompany him to Pandharkawda so that additional info could be collected about the incident.
Anticipating the entire drama would take place at Pandharkawda and without a time handy, the diarist sought permission from the deputy resident editor Alok Tiwari, who was once additionally on the birthday celebration, to go away for the spot. His first question was once “Are you leaving now, it’s 2am”. On finding me ready to go away, he asked whether I had informed at house, to which the diarist replied “I’ll manage sir”. When the senior asked what mode of delivery I used to be taking, my reply was once “by means of Activa”. “Sambhal ke jana re baba (Go sparsely),” was once what the diarist last heard from the senior whilst exiting the birthday celebration in a haste.
After attaining Butibori police station by means of 2.35am, the diarist parked the two-wheeler and boarded the four-wheeler that was once ready outside the police station at round 2.40am. In the in the meantime, the diarist additionally got in touch with assistant editor (flora and fauna & forests) Vijay Pinjarkar, who was once filling a story for TOI online at the moment. While nearing Pandharkawda at 3.40am, Vijay informed the diarist that the woodland department is bringing the carcass of the tigress to Nagpur.
Immediately, we decided to take a U-turn and reach the toll booth to investigate whether a car belonging to the woodland department had crossed. When the staffer on the booth stated that no such car was once spotted, we decided to succeed in Jam from where two roads could be taken to succeed in Pandharkawda.
We made buddies with the Highway police and requested them to stop and test cars. Luckily for us, round five.30am they stopped a convoy of 3 cars but if they noticed that it was once being escorted by means of a police car they let them move. Soon, we started chasing the convoy. It was once round 6.45am when the cars entered Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur. We adopted them inside, got some unique footage and videos as much as that point.
Apart from the diarist and the electronic media friend, no different media body of workers was once allowed to go into the rescue centre. The remainder of them needed to stand outside the gate for all the day. As we had already entered the premises in the morning, officers from woodland department attempted their very best to force us out however we remained company by means of no longer leaving where without getting the visuals.
It was once a long look ahead to us however in the end we succeeded in getting the unique visuals by means of gatecrashing the world where the autopsy was once being held and at round 6pm got the last photographs of Avni’s last rites being carried out. Our hard paintings paid off as we were the one ones to have got our personal visuals that day.
(While clicking snaps, Ranjit Deshmukh additionally zooms in on tales which are beyond the camera frame)
Anticipating the entire drama would take place at Pandharkawda and without a time handy, the diarist sought permission from the deputy resident editor Alok Tiwari, who was once additionally on the birthday celebration, to go away for the spot. His first question was once “Are you leaving now, it’s 2am”. On finding me ready to go away, he asked whether I had informed at house, to which the diarist replied “I’ll manage sir”. When the senior asked what mode of delivery I used to be taking, my reply was once “by means of Activa”. “Sambhal ke jana re baba (Go sparsely),” was once what the diarist last heard from the senior whilst exiting the birthday celebration in a haste.
After attaining Butibori police station by means of 2.35am, the diarist parked the two-wheeler and boarded the four-wheeler that was once ready outside the police station at round 2.40am. In the in the meantime, the diarist additionally got in touch with assistant editor (flora and fauna & forests) Vijay Pinjarkar, who was once filling a story for TOI online at the moment. While nearing Pandharkawda at 3.40am, Vijay informed the diarist that the woodland department is bringing the carcass of the tigress to Nagpur.
Immediately, we decided to take a U-turn and reach the toll booth to investigate whether a car belonging to the woodland department had crossed. When the staffer on the booth stated that no such car was once spotted, we decided to succeed in Jam from where two roads could be taken to succeed in Pandharkawda.
We made buddies with the Highway police and requested them to stop and test cars. Luckily for us, round five.30am they stopped a convoy of 3 cars but if they noticed that it was once being escorted by means of a police car they let them move. Soon, we started chasing the convoy. It was once round 6.45am when the cars entered Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur. We adopted them inside, got some unique footage and videos as much as that point.
Apart from the diarist and the electronic media friend, no different media body of workers was once allowed to go into the rescue centre. The remainder of them needed to stand outside the gate for all the day. As we had already entered the premises in the morning, officers from woodland department attempted their very best to force us out however we remained company by means of no longer leaving where without getting the visuals.
It was once a long look ahead to us however in the end we succeeded in getting the unique visuals by means of gatecrashing the world where the autopsy was once being held and at round 6pm got the last photographs of Avni’s last rites being carried out. Our hard paintings paid off as we were the one ones to have got our personal visuals that day.
(While clicking snaps, Ranjit Deshmukh additionally zooms in on tales which are beyond the camera frame)
Midnight rush to capture the last sighting of T1
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December 29, 2018
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