A girl trapped a leopard inside her house here and then escaped, shortly after the animal had attacked and wounded two people on the streets. The Forest Department took the leopard on Friday morning.
The police said it all began at about 9.30 pm on Thursday when the leopard walked into a weekly market, triggering panic. It first attacked a boy, Akash, and a man, Bittoo, 32. They have been admitted at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in North East Delhi and are stated to be stable.
Attracted by a cow, the leopard later barged into a house whose owner’s daughter, Preeti, was then alone. As it entered her room, the girl hastily bolted the door from within, preventing its exit, and then quickly scaled the stairs to the first floor and bolted the door from the outside.
On being summoned by Superintendent of Police Salman Taj Patil and Additional District Magistrate Preeti Jaiswal, the forest officials reached the house with a cage from Meerut early on Friday.
The animal was tranquilised and sent to a shelter centre. Ghaziabad District Magistrate Nidhi Kesarwani said Preeti’s name would be recommended for a bravery award. The injured Akash and Bittoo were in a Delhi hospital and said to be in stable condition.
On Friday morning, at about 8:00 am, the forest officials tranquilised the leopard and took the animal to Delhi from where the animal would be taken to a shelter centre, said ADM.