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In response to a Navghar police official, a couple of residents from Parijat housing society and a few passersby have been injured who have been passing by on the Talav Highway in Bhayandar East within the early hours. The injured have been taken to the close by hospital.
“Among the many injured, a 21-year-old girl is significantly wounded and has been shifted to the federal government hospital. The Forest Division must be vigilant and shift to succeed in the spot. The CCTV management room ought to be put in in forest division. They need to be the primary to react in such conditions,” State Minister Pratap Sardaik mentioned.
The Forest Division in Thane obtained a misery name round 8 a.m., the place they obtained to know {that a} leopard had been noticed. The forest groups, together with Navghar police station groups, Bhayandar fireplace brigade, leopard rescue group from Sanjay Gandhi Nationwide Park, and different animal rescue companies, rushed to the spot. The rescue operation continued for 7 hours.
“Attributable to a hostile state of affairs, the leopard additionally obtained scared and entered a flat, the place the feline was trapped and tranquillised within the third try. The forest officers evacuated the leopard and took it to the leopard rescue centre in SGNP, the place the animal is beneath medical remark,” mentioned Pawan Sharma from RAWW (Resqink Affiliation for Wildlife Welfare), who can be an honorary wildlife warden.
The Bhayandar assault is a contemporary incident in a slew of leopard assaults reported from Maharashtra’s city and peri-urban areas in the previous few months. Nonetheless, these assaults have been largely reported from the outskirts of Pune metropolis, akin to Junnar, Shirur, and different areas. Earlier, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis acknowledged that Pune and Ahilyanagar district alone have 1300 leopards.
Mr. Sarnaik referred to as the incident harmful because the leopard entered a residential space, removed from the SGNP forest space, saying, at the moment it got here right here, tomorrow it might probably come to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra authorities has despatched a proposal to the centre for the sterilisation of leopards and categorised them as a Schedule II animal. Within the meantime, Forest Minister Ganesh Naik within the Meeting urged releasing goats price ₹1 crore into the forest.
Printed – December 20, 2025 02:28 am IST
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