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| People kill leopard with lathies | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Sept 27: A 5-month-old leopard was beaten to death with lathies by villagers at Mangal Nar here this morning after it mauled four persons, including a woman.
Separated from its mother, the cub was in the maize fields at Mangal Nar when Nazakat Begum, wife of Saed Mohammad, happened to go there at about 4.30 am to attend the call of nature.
Police sources said when the woman walked through the field, the cub attacked her. Hearing her screams, some villagers rushed to the field and rescued her from the animal.
The woman survived with serious injuries, the sources added, saying while the villagers were trying to scare the cub away, it attacked and injured Gulam Rasool.
The people then called up police. Sources said while cops and villagers searched for the wild cat, Mohammad Kabir and Mohammad Saqir were wounded in sudden attacks by it.
The angry villagers then surrounded it and beat it to death with lathies in the presence of police.
Sources said by the time, a wildlife team reached the village to capture the cub, it had already been killed by the people.The team then registered an FIR against the villagers under section
50 of the wildlIfe Act 1978.
It later took the cub's body in its custody and brought it to Rajouri for post-mortem.
The villagers said they had sighted another leopard in the area. V Saini, forest range officer (wildlife) cautioned the villagers to remain vigilant as the second leopard could be the cub's mother.He said while searching its cub, it could enter the village and attack people. |
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