Brutal killings in Haridwar have exposed the obscenity of people who look at young tigers and see parts, profit and proof of their own rotten importance, as reported by ETV Bharat. Post-mortem findings from Uttarakhand’s Haridwar Forest Division show two tiger siblings consumed buffalo meat laced with poison and were then beaten with sticks after collapsing. One was male, one was female, and both were around one-and-a-half years old. Their mother had moved from Rajaji Tiger Reserve into the Haridwar Division before returning after the deaths. The facts are sickening enough. Humans made them worse.
Poisoned Bait Made Brutal Killings Deliberate
Sources cited in the investigation said the post-mortem recorded serious injuries to vital body parts, including the heads and faces of the tigers. Haridwar Divisional Forest Officer Swapnil Anirudha said one tiger had injuries near the nasal area and that a fracture was detected during examination. Poisoning was identified as the primary cause of death, while the attack with sticks appeared to have been carried out to ensure the animals were dead.
That detail is where the cruelty becomes almost unbearable. The tigers were not only poisoned. They were allegedly attacked after the poison had already done its work. Brutal killings like this are not about hunger, fear or survival. They are about the absurd human appetite to dominate even a dying animal, then cut it apart for imagined value.
Missing Paws Show The Human Market
Investigators recovered several sticks and an axe from the crime scene, but the paws of the tigers are still missing. That absence matters because missing body parts raise fears that they may have been trafficked. A paw does not vanish into the forest. It is taken by hands, carried by hands, hidden by hands and valued by people who have turned superstition, greed and status into a death sentence for wild animals.
Brutal killings demand treatment as serious wildlife crime, and the Forest Department suspects an organised poaching network behind this case. Four accused have been arrested: Alam, also known as Fammi; Aashiq; Juppi; and Yusuf. The prime suspect, Amir Hamza surrendered before a court after evading forest officials. Officials said the department would seek Hamza’s remand, hoping interrogation could expose a larger network behind the case.
This Is What Human Greed Looks Like
The names in custody matter, but the bigger disgrace is the human system that makes tiger parts desirable at all. Someone prepared poisoned buffalo meat. Someone knew where young tigers moved. Someone allegedly struck animals already unconscious. Someone removed paws. Someone may have expected buyers. That chain does not grow from the forest. Brutal killings grow from people, from demand, from the filthy belief that another species can be reduced to a trophy, charm, ingredient or bragging piece.
Forest Minister Subodh Uniyal called the incident extreme cruelty and assured strict action against those involved. That phrase is accurate, but still too clean for what happened. The killing of tiger siblings after poisoning is not merely cruel. It is grotesque. It reveals the emptiness of people who need a dead tiger part to feel powerful, lucky or rich. No tiger invented that sickness. Humans did.
Haridwar Must Expose Every Buyer
Haridwar now needs the entire human chain dragged into daylight. Poison sourcing, bait placement, local knowledge, missing paws, possible buyers and any middlemen must all be examined. Brutal killings should keep the investigation from shrinking around one surrendered suspect or four arrests if the body parts were meant for a wider market. Tigers at forest edges already navigate farms, roads and human pressure. What they cannot survive is people who turn opportunity into murder and pretend wildlife crime is another rural offence.
This case belongs inside the wider pattern of poisoning and electrocution, where tigers die because human landscapes keep producing traps, poisons and excuses. The Haridwar siblings, victims of Brutal killings, were young wild animals whose only crime was being valuable to the worst kind of human. If this investigation does not reach the buyers, handlers and believers in tiger parts, the absurdity will continue: humans killing magnificence, then calling themselves civilised.
Source: ETV Bharat, India
Photo: ETV Bharat, India
