Leopard rescued near Ggm; 13-yr-old injured

A leopard strayed into a village near Gurugram in Haryana on Wednesday morning and injured a 13-year-old boy, officials aware of the matter said, adding that the animal was rescued after a six-hour operation by the wildlife department and police.

- Abhishek Behl and Leena Dhankhar

The officials said the incident took place in Narsinghpur, around 8km from Gurugram on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway near Kherki Daula.

They said the leopard entered the village at around 6am, jumped into the house of Devi Lal - where it injured 13-year-old Prabhat Mishra-and when the family raised the alarm, jumped into Satbir Tanwar's house next door, where it was trapped and eventually rescued from.

"The leopard was fit and is not injured. seems to have come over to this area from neighbouring Aravallis, where sometimes the bigger cats try to dominate the geographical area and push smaller leopards outside their domain," said Anil Gandas, a wildlife activist who participated in the rescue operation.

Wildlife officials said the leopard is male, is only around 4 years old, and probably entered the village in search of food.

They also suspect that it is the same animal that was spotted multiple times over the past four months near the village-particularly in forested land, where the Global City project is coming up.