[1] About 3,000 wild tigers now survive compared with 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century.
This abrupt decimation in population count was largely due to the slaughter of tigers by colonial and Indian elite, during the British Raj period, and indeed following India's independence.
[7] Sansar Chand, the notorious Tiger poacher acknowledged to selling 470 tiger skins and 2,130 leopard skins to just four clients from Nepal and Tibet.
[8] Sansar Chand, from the Thanagazi area of Alwar district, had been termed "the kingpin running the country’s biggest wildlife trade syndicate".
[12] Sansar Chand's wife Rani and son Akash have also been arrested for wild life trafficking.