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Leopard enters salon in Gurugram village; rescued after 2 hours

GURUGRAM: Panic gripped a Gurugram village on Friday as a two-and-a-half-year-old leopard strayed into a salon from where it was rescued after two hours of efforts by the wild life team.

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Sumedha Sharma
Tribune news Service
Gurugram, August 9

Panic gripped a Gurugram village on Friday as a two-and-a-half-year-old leopard strayed into a salon.

The leopard was first sighted in a lawn of a house at Badshahpur village before it ran and hid in a local salon from where it was rescued after two hours of efforts by the wild life team.

A local sustained minor injuries as the animal scratched him while running towards the shop.

The drama began at around 5 pm when the feline was spotted in lawn of a local house. As people raised an alarm, the cat panicked and ran helter-skelter before jumping on to the roof of a nearby shop where a guy was standing.

The leopard charged at him and scratched with his claws before it sneaked into a local salon.

The salon owner rushed out and lowered his shutters. The villagers then called the wildlife team that rescued the cat which is currently under observation.

“The leopard is undergoing medical examination following which it will be let off in the jungle. We believe that he might have strayed into the village looking for an easy prey may be a goat or a dog. The shop owner
exhibited immense presence of mind and lowered his shutters otherwise the situation might have been worse,” said DFO Subhash Yadav.

“They regularly visit our fields in the foothills and even village ponds. We have been spotting their pug marks everyday but the fact that one of them dared to come down even before nightfall has left the entire village scared.

“They had so far been coming for water but if they now come looking for food, the entire village will be in danger.

“We have demanded vigil and measures from forest department as the village children often wander alone near the foothills in the evening hours,” said Suresh Dayma, a local resident.

Following a decade-old ban on mining and stringent application of forest norms, there has been a consistent rise in feline population in the last few years and the current number of leopards recorded in Haryana Aravallis stands at 40.

As per Wildlife Institute of India, the highest leopard occupancy in the Aravallis is in Gurugram and Faridabad and area under leopard occupancy is estimated to be 200.9 sq km. 

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