JAIPUR: The controversial decision of shifting T-24 , the Ranthambore tiger blamed for killing a forest guard on May 9, has been put on the back burner for the time being.Bowing to the widespread opposition, the forest department has decided against holding the tiger guilty of killing the guard without a thorough probe.The committee formed for preparing a report on the incident had recommended shifting of T-24 but now it has been decided to include more conservationists and wildlife experts for investigating as to which tiger had attacked the forest guard. And if it was T-24 aka Ustad, why did it do so?The wildlife enthusiasts believe that forest department didn’t take into consideration the fact that T-24’s territory witnesses maximum human intervention.As a result, whichever tiger replaces T-24 in that territory, man-animal conflict is unavoidable.“We had prepared the report for shifting the tiger. But now we have decided to postpone shifting for the time being. We will investigate the matter further before taking a decision in this regard,” said a senior forest department officer.The TOI had carried a story titled “Not proven guilty, yet T-24 is culprit!” in its May 12 edition. Minister of state for forest and wildlife Rajkumar Rinwa said it would be injustice to T-24 if it is shifted without a proper investigation into the incident.The fact that even before the tiger’s identity could be ascertained, it was decided that T-24 would be shifted from Ranthambore had created a lot of furore in the past few days. Wildlife enthusiasts believed that the tiger was bearing the brunt just because it has a history of conflicts with humans.On May 9, a team which visited the area where the tiger had killed 44-year-old forest guard Rampal Mali took at least an hour-and-a-half to reach the spot. Tiger T-24 was spotted loitering nearby and immediately, a conclusion was drawn that it had killed the guard.Twenty-three-year-old Ghamandi Lal Saini was killed allegedly by T-24 on July 3, 2010. In March 2012, a 19-year-old boy, and in October 2012, an assistant forester, were allegedly killed by the same tiger.