In an incident that has again brought to the fore the grimness of human-animal conflict, a 25-year-old woman was mauled to death by a leopard on Pauri-Kanskhet motor road near Kandoliya in Pauri tehsil of Pauri Garhwal district on Monday night.
Informed of the incident, the sub-divisional magistrate Pl Shah rushed to the spot with some revenue police personnel. Shah told The pioneer on Tuesday that the information of the incident had reached them around 4 pm on Tuesday.
laxmi Devi, wife of Ranveer Singh, resident of village Chuinchha, fell prey to the big cat when she was searching for her cow in the nearby fields late Monday evening. Her body-parts of a few limbs and head were what were left of her body-was traced bare 300 meters from Kandoliya.
Shah said that he had asked the divisional forest officer Garhwal division to put a cage immediately to capture the leopard and to write to the chief wild life warden to declare the said leopard a man- eater.
Quizzed, DFO Ramesh Chandra said that he had got to know the incident around 3.30 pm on Tuesday.
A forest team comprising eight personnel has been deployed at the incident area and a cage has been installed in the area. “We have also written to the chief wild life warden. The locals have been asked not to get near the place where the incident occurred. Besides, we have been guarding the place round the clock to stop recurrence of such an incident,” he said.