Uttar Pradesh: Villagers track and kill leopard after it attacks jawan

Representational Pic/iStock

A leopard was beaten to death by people in a village in this Uttar Pradesh district after the animal attacked a Homeguard jawan, a forest department officer said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday evening in Amannagar village, he said.

Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Gyan Singh said Homeguard Jawan Surendra had gone to a tubewell behind his house with his children - Disha, 20, Reshu, 14, and Deepanshu (18) - where the leopard was sitting on a mango tree.

Animal footprints, suspectedly of a leopard were found near the place of attack. Pic/PTI

The leopard pounced on Surendra. Villagers, who subsequently arrived at the scene, beat up the leopard with sticks, killing the animal on the spot, Singh said. Surendra is currently undergoing treatment in a hospital here, officials said.

Citing information from the villagers, Singh said that Disha showed courage and caught the leopard's legs from behind and Reshu and Deepanshu struggled with the leopard for 10 minutes to save their father.

Singh said that information about the incident has been given to senior officials and the post-mortem of the leopard has been done. Ranger Rajneesh Tomar said it was a female leopard aged around three years. Departmental action is being taken in this case.

This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever