Three leopards which escaped out of their enclosures in Gopalpur zoo near Palampur in Kangra district during the intervening night of 14 and 15 March, were captured on Thursday and put back in their enclosures.
A spokesperson of the Forest Department said here that it was an act of sabotage by some miscreants as the fence of the enclosures was found cut at two places by the zoo staff on Wednesday morning. later, three leopards were found missing from the zoo. Immediately thorough hunt was carried out by the zoo staff in the nearby areas and a female leopard was found near the enclosure and was captured.
During the search, it was suspected that two leopards were present in a nullah about 50 meters from the zoo boundary.