Guldaar injured by villagers dies

Tribune News Service

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Haridwar, March 25

An injured guldaar died at Ravli Mehdood village, near Roshanabad,15 km from the city today. Forest officials said the guldaar spotted in early morning hours might have come from the nearby forest terrain of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve.

The guldaar entered the rented house of Sant Ram in Ravli Mehdood village and attacked him and his wife Guddi Devi while trying to leap over the boundary wall of the house. The couple was injured and were admitted to a medical centre where their condition is said to be normal. Angry villagers attacked the guldaar with sticks and rods.

Forest Ranger of Haridwar range Mahesh Semwal said the guldaar was injured and later died. The real reason for its death would be known after the post-mortem. He refuted the report that villagers killed the guldaar, saying there were no such injury marks on the animal’s carcass.

Semwal said the guldaar attacked the couple, who woke up as they heard some noise, out of fear. Of late, many incidents of wild animals intruding into residential areas of Roshanabad, SIDCUL and BHEL, which are adjacent to the Rajaji Tiger Reserve forest terrain, have been reported in the past few years.

Though BHEL is constructing a boundary wall around its township, local villagers are demanding a similar safety wall.

Semwal said with the advent of the summer, wild animals, particularly elephants and guldaar, start moving out of forests in search of water. The department was conducting regular patrolling and had launched an awareness campaign to check human-animal conflicts, he added.