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A leopard was spotted successful a lodging nine successful Maharashtra’s Thane district, wherever it charged astatine 7 people, leaving them injured connected Friday (December 19, 2025) morning, creating a panic concern successful the region.
According to a Navghar constabulary official, a fewer residents from Parijat lodging nine and immoderate passersby were injured who were passing by connected the Talav Road successful Bhayandar East successful the aboriginal hours. The injured were taken to the adjacent hospital.
“Among the injured, a 21-year-old pistillate is earnestly wounded and has been shifted to the authorities hospital. The Forest Department needs to beryllium vigilant and displacement to scope the spot. The CCTV power country should beryllium installed successful wood department. They should beryllium the archetypal to respond successful specified situations,” State Minister Pratap Sardaik said.
The Forest Department successful Thane received a distress telephone astir 8 a.m., wherever they got to cognize that a leopard had been spotted. The wood teams, on with Navghar constabulary presumption teams, Bhayandar occurrence brigade, leopard rescue squad from Sanjay Gandhi National Park, and different carnal rescue agencies, rushed to the spot. The rescue cognition continued for 7 hours.
“Due to a hostile situation, the leopard besides got frightened and entered a flat, wherever the feline was trapped and tranquillised successful the 3rd attempt. The wood officials evacuated the leopard and took it to the leopard rescue centre successful SGNP, wherever the carnal is nether aesculapian observation,” said Pawan Sharma from RAWW (Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare), who is besides an honorary wildlife warden.
The Bhayandar onslaught is simply a caller incidental successful a slew of leopard attacks reported from Maharashtra’s municipality and peri-urban areas successful the past fewer months. However, these attacks were mostly reported from the outskirts of Pune city, specified arsenic Junnar, Shirur, and different regions. Earlier, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that Pune and Ahilyanagar territory unsocial person 1300 leopards.
Mr. Sarnaik called the incidental unsafe arsenic the leopard entered a residential area, acold from the SGNP wood area, saying, contiguous it came here, time it tin travel to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra authorities has sent a connection to the centre for the sterilisation of leopards and categorised them arsenic a Schedule II animal. In the meantime, Forest Minister Ganesh Naik successful the Assembly suggested releasing goats worthy ₹1 crore into the forest.
