On April 4, 2005, Sunda Bawariya and his son Kailash, who live on the fringes of Mundawara village at Viratnagar in Rajasthan's Jaipur district, were beaten up and arrested by a group of forest guards, officials and two female police personnel for tiger poaching. Sunda's wife Dholi alleges the attackers didn't explain their act; they just chanted:" Rakam dikhaao, naar kaa khaal dikhaao. Tum logaa ne naar maaro hai (Show us the money and the tiger hides. You've killed tigers).'

They were referring to the missing tigers of Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve. A blame game is on to pin the responsibility for the loss. The forest department's (fd's ) office in the reserve says tigers were last spotted on November 28, 2004. In January 2005, some experts attributed the crisis to poaching (see Down To Earth,