Sundernagar. In Mahadev under Suket forest division, around 9 am on Monday, the leopard, after climbing a tree in the fields adjacent to the village, after getting scared by the dogs below, entered the bathroom of a house in the adjacent densely populated area and the forest department After 8 hours of rescue operation, the Sundernagar team safely sedated the leopard, took it out and took it into its custody and the lives of the people of the area including the leopard were safely saved.
On Monday morning, Forest Department Sundernagar received information about a leopard climbing a tree in Mahadev area. On which DFO Suket Rakesh Katoch, DFO Kullu Wildlife Rajesh Sharma and forest personnel along with veterinarians reached the spot along with their team.
On the spot, DF O Suket and Wildlife took stock of the situation after seeing the leopard very high on the tree and found that the leopard should be monitored so that it comes down from the tree on its own and goes into the forest at night. After taking stock of the situation, forest personnel were put on duty.
The forest officer had just returned to the office when he received information that the leopard, out of fear due to the presence of a group of dogs under the tree, had come down from the tree and entered a bathroom of the adjacent densely populated residential house.
DFO Suket Rakesh Katoch, DFO Wildlife Kullu Rajesh Sharma and veterinarian reached the spot. The forest department team reached the spot and prepared a security cordon by putting a net around the bathroom. Meanwhile, a person named Nag, a resident of Mahadev, showed indomitable courage and closed the door of the bathroom.
DFO Suket Rakesh Katoch said that closing the bathroom door by a local person helped the forest personnel a lot in controlling the leopard. After which the team of forest personnel made a hole in the door to render unconscious the leopard captured in the bathroom, but the leopard was hiding behind the washing machine kept inside the bathroom. After enlarging the hole, the leopard was rendered unconscious by darting it thrice with a darting gun. After which, after taking him out safely from the bathroom, the Forest Department put him in a recovery van and took him into custody.
