The report reveals that Maqsood was given enough warnings by the guard deployed at tiger enclosure before the incident took place. The report said that Maqsood was obsessed with tigers and was also seeking treatment for his mental sickness.
The committee observed that as this was the first incident ever to take place in the zoological park, occurrence of such ghastly incidents is least expected. “Even if the authorities were informed timely, they would not have been able to take steps to prevent the incident as it would have taken them at least 20 minutes to save Maqsood and in the mean time the animal could have caused harm to the visitor.”
The youth’s wife had also sought compensation of `50 lakh from the Centre, National Zoological Park, Delhi government, Central Zoo Authority, a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Police Commissioner. While Delhi government’s forest department had said it was not competent to award compensation as the zoo was under the jurisdiction of the central government the Centre stated that the zoo was yet not in stage of preparedness to deal with such emergencies in professional manner.
