The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam.

Informing that Assam may have the highest number of tigers soon, Assam forest minister Rockybul Hussain told reporters that census through pug marks and camera-trapping has indicated that the tiger population in Kaziranga and other wildlife sanctuaries of the state was rising.