JORHAT, April 22: Three leopard cubs have been caught by the local people at Sensua tea garden under Pulibor Police Station of Jorhat district this morning. Forest Department sources said that the cubs were caught by the people when they appeared before the garden workers.
The forest personnel also tried to capture their mother but it fled away.
CHANDIGARH: Even as the recent killing of two leopards in Karnal and Jind districts has attracted criticism by animal rights activists, Haryana Forest Minister Ajay Singh Yadav on Tuesday ordered a departmental enquiry and directed Financial Commissioner Keshni Anand Arora to submit the report immediately.
Rajkot: In a bizarre incident, a man who had been on the run and was wanted in several cases of extortion in Bagvadar police station in Porbandar district was caught after he had to be hospitalised for a leopard attack.
Palanpur: The prime accused in the wild animal skin trading scam, which had been busted in a Sabarkantha village after a forest department sting operation on April 1, has been arrested.
But this time it's the agile leopard that is on the radar of poachers as vigilance has tightened around the illegal trade in tiger parts across India, say wildlife experts. The leopard's skin and bones are equally in demand in the international market and wildlife conservationists say up to 500 of these big cats are killed every year for these.
A wild leopard believed to have accompanied goat herds from neighbouring Rajasthan was shot dead by policemen after it attacked and injured over a dozen village residents outside Mandokhera near Jind City on Thursday.
Palanpur: All four accused involved in the trading of leopard skin and caught red-handed by the forest department in Vijaynagar last week were released on bail on Monday by additional sessions court of Idar in Sabarkantha.
KOLKATA: A leopard was shot dead at Shikarpur in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal on Sunday after it entered a village and seriously injured 11 persons.
Palanpur: First class judicial magistrate of Vijaynagar,on Friday, granted six-day remand to four persons held with leopard skins on Wednesday night at Vijaynagar in Sabarkantha district.
Four members of a gang trading in leopard skins were arrested in a joint operation by state Intelligence Bureau and forest department.
