"The man-eater of Champaran" was the nickname of the tiger shot dead by Indian police after killing at least nine people.
The operation that led to the culling of the big cat involved 200 people, Indian authorities said on Sunday.
The tiger had been terrorizing residents around the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Champaran in eastern India for about a month, having killed six people during this time, including a woman and her eight-year-old son last Saturday.
But even before these last two deaths, Indian authorities had classified the tiger - thought to be a three- or four-year-old male - as a "man-eater", which gave the green light to its suppression.
Previous attempts to neutralize the animal had failed.
"Two teams entered the forest on two elephants on Saturday afternoon and a third one waited where we thought the tiger would come out, and we shot (...) to kill it there," local police chief Kiran Kumar told AFP. : "The team, made up of eight snipers and about 200 members of the forestry department, took nearly six hours to complete the operation," Kumar clarified.
Local animal rights activists attribute episodes like this, of extraordinary aggression by wild animals towards humans, to the rapid expansion of human settlements in India, which have grown around forests and close to major wildlife routes.
According to government data, nearly 225 people lost their lives in tiger attacks in India between 2014 and 2019. More than 200 tigers were killed by poachers or by electrocution between 2012 and 2018. India is home to approximately 70% of the world's tigers, with 2,967 tigers in the country in 2018.