Majik, who is employed with the home guard department, which works in tandem with Goa police, had been arrested after a forest department probe indicated his alleged involvement in the poaching of a tiger in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, where a tiger was trapped and shot dead and filmed subsequently.

The case was exposed after wildlife activist Rajendra Kerkar published photographs of the slain tiger in the print media here.

'We are going to back our forest officials to the fullest. They were investigating a serious crime,' Kumar said, adding investigations into the tiger poaching case had been temporarily stalled in view of the delay in the forensic examination of the poached tiger's bones and other remains.

'I have spoken to the director of the Wildlife Institute of India based in Dehradun who have said they will expedite the forensic tests. The report is expected soon,' Kumar said.