Budgam (Jammu and Kashmir): The Kashmir Wildlife authorities on Tuesday captured a man-eater leopard, a week after it allegedly mauled a 4-year girl to death in central Kashmir's Budgam district.
According to the reports, the employees of the wildlife protection department had caged the leopard in front of the residential area of the DC office complex.
An official said that this is the same female leopard that killed a four-year-old girl a week ago. The girl was playing in the courtyard of her house, close to a dense plantation when the wild cat pounced on her.
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According to the sources, A massive search for leopard started after the girl went missing. The girl's mauled body was found inside the nursery next morning. There was a massive protest by the locals to track down the man-eater and thin out the plantation nursery. A district-level official of the department was suspended after the girl's death. After a strenuous effort for ten days, the wildlife department employees in collaboration with police and local people caged the leopard.
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The department had earlier claimed that the leopard that killed the four-year-old girl was a female leopard as they had collected the samples in the nursery of Housing Colony Ompura. Meanwhile, the captured leopard has been sent for forensic examination to establish if she was a man-eater.
