A special vehicle named 'Airawat' has been deployed for the safety of the Madhyamik examinees at Jalpaiguri's Mantadari forest area under Baikinthupur forest division a day after the death of a student at Maharajghat.
Investigation revealed that an exchange of fire between security personnel (District Reserve Guard) and armed cadres of the proscribed terrorist organization CPI(Maoist) took place on August 7 last year, in the forest area along Bogla-Pangur villages.
In support of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Kumar announced the adoption of more than 1000 acres of the Kodimyala forest area in Kondagattu under the 'Green India Challenge initiative'.
The department placed cages at different places by putting live chickens in it. The leopard came to eat the chicken kept in the cage in the morning and was caught. Now, preparations were made to send the captured leopard to Jungle Safari Raipur.
The incident is said to have occurred around 5 pm on Sunday. The man who died was identified as Ramdavan. On getting the information about the incident, the team of forest department rushed to the spot and sent the body for the post mortem.
Kin of the victim, mother and brother alleged that "she was murdered as the body bore injury marks and her eyes were damaged". She has been missing since January 11, the police said.
Officials of Andhra Pradesh Police on Sunday launched a search operation against 'unidentified persons', accused of beating two gold traders and robbing them in the forest area of Prakasam District.
An elderly woman was killed in a leopard attack in woman in Gadhaura village in the Kunwarpur forest area in the Manendragarh district of Chhattisgarh, said a forest officer on Sunday.
Results of DNA testing of bones retrieved from forest area in the national capital, based on the statement of Aftaab Amin Poonawala who confessed to having killed his live-in girlfriend Shraddha Walkar, may give a new turn to the case, according to Delhi Police.