Leopard spreads terror among locals in northern India, rescued
September 30, 2024
by Komal Kashyap
by Komal KashyapA leopard hunting cattles and attacking locals, was caught by forest officials in a village in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh.
The incident took place in Dharampur village on the banks of the Naubana forest of Kakraha forest range of Katarniaghat wildlife division in Bahraich on September 29.
Visual showed the leopard jumping inside the cage. It killed a young farmer on Sunday afternoon. The forest department team has taken the caged leopard to the range office.
According to reports, the leopard attacked and killed 35-year-old Kandhai, the son of Jagjivan, in Maikupurwa village of Dharampur Bejha, near the Naubana forest in the Kakraha range of Murtiha Kotwali around 1 PM on Sunday. This incident provoked considerable anger among the villagers, leading the forest department to install a cage later that night. By approximately 3 AM on Monday, the adult leopard was captured while trying to catch a goat that had been placed inside the cage. The villagers expressed relief, as this leopard had caused fear in the village for nearly a month, having entered the village and killed multiple livestock.
In the aftermath of the attack, CO Mihipurwa Hiralal Kanaujia, Murtiha Kotwal Amitendra Singh, Kakraha Forest Inspector Ashok Kumar Srivastava, and teams from the forest and police departments stayed in the village until late at night. Around 9 PM on Sunday, Kakraha Range Officer DP Kanaujia arrived with a cage and the Special Tiger Protection Force from the forest department. The cage was set up in a field outside the village based on the incident’s location and the villagers’ accounts of the animal’s movements.
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