Couple of leopards ‘sighted’ in Faridabad village; residents on alert

Tribune News Service
Faridabad, August 21

Residents of some villages of Ballabgarh subdivision in the district have been put on alert after sighting of a couple of leopards in the wee hours of Friday morning near Jajru village here.

The warning has been issued by the officials of the wildlife department here.

“The report of roaming of the leopards came this morning when the officials of the  NTPC Solar Power plant located near Jajru village sent clips of the footage of the CCTV camera installed on its outer boundary wall, depicting the movement of two or three leopards around 2.30 am this morning,” said Virender Singh, a resident of Jajru village.

He said the footage clearly shows the movement of the wild cats in one of his fields located adjacent to the solar plant.

Claiming that besides informing the officials of the wildlife department, he said information has been passed to the villagers asking them not to go alone in the fields at odd hours.

“I asked my brother to come back immediately when he had gone to the nearby fields to collect fodder for the cattle,” he said adding that crops like jowar, bajra and cotton were standing in the fields at present.

He demanded drone surveillance of the area to detect the presence of the leopards in the area, as he claimed that the incident has posed a panic and threat to the lives of both humans and cattle.

Charan Singh, District Wildlife Inspector, said that while no pug marks have been found so far by the teams that visited the area, he said the villagers have been put on alert and have been asked to inform movement of such an animal if any, immediately.

The department had rescued a leopard that had strayed into the Industrial area of Saroorpur village in the NIT region here on November 15, last year.