A leopard has been sentenced to ‘life imprisonment’ for killing a minimum of three folks within the Surat district of Gujarat. Captured after a week-long operation close to Mandvi in Surat on Sunday, the Forest Division handed the sentence to the grownup leopard that terrorised villages within the district.
The officers mentioned the leopard will spend the remainder of its life on the rehabilitation centre in Zankhvav in the identical district.
Anand Kumar, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Surat, advised The Indian Categorical that when an animal turns into habituated to creating violent assaults on people, it will possibly’t be saved within the open.
“Based on the Forest Division’s rules, such animals are rescued and saved in rehabilitation centres. This leopard, which had been making violent assaults on people, has been rescued and can now be saved on the rehabilitation centre,” he added.
Its newest sufferer was a seven-year-old lady, whom it had carried away whereas she was taking part in close to a sugarcane discipline at Ushker village beneath the Mandvi taluka. Her household had come from neighbouring Maharashtra to search out jobs as agricultural labourers through the sugarcane harvest season.
