Lucknow: Male Leopard, in the initial, crashed into terror because of injuring seven people at the Gudumba police station consisting of the Kalyanpur area, Jadnagar, Paharpur, Phulbagh, and Jankipuram (Sector-H).
Panic on the outskirts because the leopard was seen in the Lucknowpeople Gudamba area who lived in these areas into tizzy after they saw the leopard through bylane.
A team of officials of the Ministry of Forestry rushed to a place to trap cats, who seemed to be lost to the city area from the Jarbanki District Forest.
The leopard movement was arrested on a CCTV camera installed in the Gudamba residential area.
A woman, Dharmdai was hospitalized, who lived on the school campus in Kalyanpur, was the first to be attacked by cats.
The woman who was seriously injured got 32 stitches.
“I worked in the field about 8am when suddenly a big cat crashed into my back,” Dharmdai said, who hadn’t come out of the trauma.
CCTV footage: Leopard was seen on the streets of Lucknow “before I could ask for help, Leopard struck my temple with his claws.
My son Veeru tried to distract the leopards but he was also attacked,” he said.
Meanwhile, Dharmdai Gajraj’s husband, who worked as a peon at school, rushed to help.
However, the leopard escaped.
The news spreads like a fire in the colony.
Around 11 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, the police team reached the place.
At least five forestry department teams consisting of 25 members were placed in the Adilnagar area, Kalyanpur and Paharpur in Gudumba.
Before the police and forest officials could react, The Feline attacked another man, Joseph, in the same area.
Even though forest officials conducted extensive allowance operations but failed to trap wildcat.
Around 17:30, a retired police officer, Massih Hospital (76) from Jadnagar, who had gone to his daughter’s house, Saroj Mathews, to celebrate Christmas was attacked by leopards.
The Leopard escaped from the commotion.
Police officials and forestry departments reached the village and tried to calm the people and keep them away from the area where the leopard seemed to be hiding.
Around midnight, the leopard was trapped in the net placed in the hole but managed to escape and attack several people who had arrived there to get the view of the animal.
A police officer said the leopard caused seven injuries.
Deputy Deputy Police Commissioner additional, North Zone, Prachi Singh said police and forest officials were looking for leopards.
“Officials have been asked to tie the area in case they see the leopard,” he added.
District forest officers (DFO), Lucknow, Ravi Kumar, who oversaw the operation, told TOI that 25 members of the Forestry Department were looking for leopards.
“It seems that three-year-old leopard has lost the barbanki.
We try to trap it so that it can be released in the wild,” he said.
(With input from Vivek Singh Chauhan and Himanshu Singh)