Ashok Bhushan, C.J.

This Writ Petition, filed as a Public Interest Litigation, questions the killing of a Tiger on 02.12.2012 by the officials of the Forest Department of the State and prays for a direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate into the killing of a male Tiger. Writ Petitioners further pray for a direction to investigate and identify the forest officials who hunted the Tiger.

2. In the Writ Petition the following prayers are made:

(i) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or appropriate writ, order or direction directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate into the killing of the male tiger aged 10 years which took place on 2/12/2012 in the peripheries of Wayanad Wild Life Sanctuary in the State of Kerala.

(ii) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or appropriate writ, order or direction directing the investigation Team to identify those forest officials who hunted and killed the tiger and to prosecute them for committing the offences under the Wild Life Protection Act.

(iii) Issue a Writ of Mandamus or appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents 1 to 3 to formulate guidelines to protect the tigers in exercise of the powers vested in