A 15-year-old boy was injured after a leopard entered a residential area in the Sitanagar area of Agra early Tuesday morning.
Police and forest officials reached the spot to trap the big cat while the boy’s condition was said to be stable. Sumit Solanki (15) said he saw a leopard when he entered his house and was attacked when he tried to run away.
“Later, the leopard strayed into a mango godown. Locals locked the godown from outside,” claimed the district administration officials who reached the spot.
Meanwhile, Agra police said that an operation was underway to rescue the leopard. According to the Twitter handle of Agra Police, forest and police officials were there to help in the rescue operation.
Meanwhile in Sonbhadra, local police and forest sleuths claimed to have arrested three smugglers under Karma police station area on Monday night and seized from their possession ivory worth over Rs 2.50 crore. The police said the team seized around 10.60 kg ivory from the smugglers.
SP Amarendra Prasad Singh said that for the past several days, information was being received about smuggling of the remains of protected wildlife from the district. On Monday evening, an informer tipped off police and forest officers that some smugglers were going to Varanasi with ivory.
During checking near Ram Manohar Lohia Mahavidyalaya on Sonbhadra-Mirzapur road, three accused with ivory were nabbed, the SP said.
Those arrested were identified as Parameshwar Prajapati, Bhaiya Lal Maurya and Dharmalal Maurya.