Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik to ensure proper care of tigress Sundari, currently lodged in an enclosure at Satkosia Tiger Reserve, till it is relocated to Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.

Odisha had brought Sundari along with another tiger Mahavir in 2018 from Madhya Pradesh as part of India’s first tiger translocation project. Both were released in the Satkosia reserve forest later.

While Mahavir died months after his release in 2018, Sundari turned violent and killed two persons. Odisha forest officials then put Sundari inside an enclosure after tranquillising her in November 2018. However, she has not been keeping well.

Odisha has already intimated the Madhya Pradesh government to take the tigress back.