Strayed Leopard Keeps Residents Of Bharat Nagar On Tenterhooks
“I was scared at the sight of a leopard. The leopard jumped the fence at a certain height and passed from left to right,” said Pradeep and felt the leopard might have strayed from Savandurga near Magadi in Bengaluru South district or from Kanakapura having forest cover. Later, the leopard was directly sighted by a couple of residents including an auto-driver and a resident
BENGALURU: The couple of residents of Bharat Nagar, of Bydarahallli on Magadi road of Bengaluru city have direct sighting a leopard in their vicinity for the first time and after its sighting on July 9 at around 3.50 am. Since then the animal has been regularly caught on CCTV wherein its movement has been recorded leaving the residents scared. However, no harm to humans from the strayed wild animal.
Pradeep, an employee of a factory was on his way on June 9 at around 3.50 when he first came across the leopard directly and did not dare to continue along the way. After the police were alerted over the leopard and as a precautionary measure, he checked it with a cctv installed at the house of Chandranna. The CCTV recordings confirmed the presence of a leopard crossing in their vicinity.
“I was scared at the sight of a leopard. The leopard jumped the fence at a certain height and passed from left to right,” said Pradeep and felt the leopard might have strayed from Savandurga near Magadi in Bengaluru South district or from Kanakapura having forest cover. Later, the leopard was directly sighted by a couple of residents including an auto-driver and a resident.
A wildlife activist said “It is the first case of a leopard sighting at Bharat Nagar in about 20 years” while a resident Manjunath, runs a chat centre at Bharat Nagar, said “I have been staying here for 35 years and never sighted a leopard directly.”
Initially, residents felt the leopard might have settled at an abandoned house nearby and Manjunath stated “a search was conducted in and around the abandoned house but no leopard inside.”
The resident said “we thought the strayed leopard might have given birth to new ones but that wasn’t the case.”
Coming operations by forest and police personnel did not yield results and the forest personnel felt that the leopard would have left the vicinity after crackers were busted to drive the animal away. Meanwhile, inmates of a paying guest accommodation sighted the leopard moving towards Kanakapura side.