In the wake of rising leopard attack incidents in the sacred town, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) and Forest departments are mulling over setting up a fence on a permanent basis.
One more leopard was caught at Tirumala Footway. This is the third leopard to be caught in 50 days in Tirupathi and the second one from Tirumala after a six-year-old girl named Lakshitha was killed in a leopard attack last week.
A villager named Bharat Panwar who spotted the leopard at around 4 PM claimed that the same big cat has been roaming continuously in the village for the past couple of days.
A leopard attacked and injured a 15-year-old boy in Chikkaboregowdanadoddy village of Mandya district in Karnataka. The parents and villagers have raised their demands to the authorities to catch the leopard. Frequent leopard attacks are happening in state of Karnataka
Former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy and JDS legislative party leader HD Kumaraswamy slammed Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai raising questions as to why the Gujarat model is required to safeguard the people from leopards.
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.