Ghaziabad: Leopard crossing the street was crushed by a automobile on Delhi-Meerut Expressway, died

Ghaziabad: A four-and-a-half-year-old male leopard was discovered lifeless on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway in Bhojpur police station space of ​​Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Forest Department officers stated that the face of the animal was badly crushed, which means that some automobile might need hit it onerous. Officials stated that the driving force of the automobile that hit the leopard might need been afraid of an assault by the animal, attributable to which he might need elevated the pace of the automobile, which resulted within the loss of life of the leopard.

DCP (rural) Ravi Kumar stated the police acquired a name round 8.10 pm in regards to the leopard’s carcass. The place the place the leopard was discovered is surrounded by forests and fields. As quickly as the knowledge was acquired, a police group reached the spot and knowledgeable the forest division. Initial investigation revealed that the leopard was crossing the street. Then a automobile hit him. We are attempting to hint the automobile.

Actually, CCTV cameras haven’t been put in on the Delhi Meerut Expressway close to Modinagar. That’s why it is getting tough to hint the automobile. Expressing apprehension, the DCP stated that the driving force of the automobile might need bought scared seeing the leopard and began attempting to run away. In the method the animal bought hit by the automobile. He stated that we’re checking the CCTV footage of the encompassing areas.

Ghaziabad District Forest Officer Manish Singh stated that the postmortem of the lifeless physique can be finished quickly. The animal’s face is badly bruised. When we reached the spot, he was mendacity in a pool of blood.” Singh said, “We have recovered the physique and despatched it for investigation. The autopsy of the physique can be finished on Wednesday and solely after that we’ll have extra details about it. Still, we are going to file a police grievance towards the unknown driver.”

At the identical time, a crowd of individuals gathered on the Delhi Meerut Expressway to see the lifeless leopard. The expressway was jammed attributable to stoppage of automobiles however after the intervention of the police, the street was cleared.

Leopards heading to town
Let us inform that earlier this month itself a leopard was seen in Ajnara Le Garden Society in Noida Extension. After this the personnel of the forest division had camped within the society for a number of days and tried to catch the leopard by inserting a cage however they didn’t get success. Just a few days in the past, a leopard was additionally seen in Sector Vu of Greater Noida. Every week again, one other leopard was discovered roaming within the society in Meerut Cantt.

Forest officers stated it was tough to verify whether or not the leopard that died was certainly one of these animals that had been sighted lately. The DFO stated on Tuesday that we don’t have any conclusive proof about this. We will attempt to know extra about this.