A leopardess aged about two and half years was killed after being hit by a car being driven at speed. The incident took place on the Gaulapar-Sitarganj road in an area falling under the Kishanpur forest range. locals state that after being run over by the speeding vehicle, the spotted big cat died a painful death on the road and even after that her body lay on the road for quite some time as the forest department officials had not reached the site. After the body remained lying on the road for quite some time, a local political lead passing by, Vikki Khan got the dead body of the female leopard transported to the Dak Bungalow of the forest department.
The forest department is reported to have got done the post mortem of the leopard and then burnt its body.
According to reports from local sources, an SUV was seen speeding on the Gaulapar-Sitarganj Road in the Terai east forest division when it hit a female leopard which sustained grieveous injuries as result of the hit. Around this time, a Haldwani youth Vikki Khan who was passing by, stopped his four wheeler and informed the officers of the forest department about the incident. Khan said that he was going for some work to Sitarganj on Friday morning when he saw a speeding vehicle hit the leopard on the road. He informed the forest department officials but as none of the department personnel had reached the site of the mishap for quite some time, he took the help of local villagers to load the body the leopard onto a vehicle and then transported the big cat, which had died by now, to the forest Dak Bungalow. Department officials said that the forest guard at the near chowki was in hospital after being clawed at by a leopard which resulted in delay in the departmental response.