Hyderabad, March 20 -- A tiger moving around the villages of Surampeta and Dammapeta in Kodimial mandal of Jagtial district continues to strike fear among villagers.

J-1, as the big cat is called, entered Nizamabad in the last week of February from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in neighbouring Maharashtra, and is believed to have taken shelter. Forest officials say the big cat reached Jagtial around mid-March.

Most recently, its pug marks were sighted near a Shivalayam temple located in a forest near Dammapeta. It had killed some cattle in Surampeta village earlier this week.

The tiger has been moving in the districts of Nizamabad, Kamareddy and Jagtial for over a month after moving around Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, Jangaon, Siddipet and Sirc...