- Dahegaon forest area incident
lakhandur, During the morning, one of the few persons who had gone to collect firewood (sarpan) in the forest area was attacked and hunted by a leopard. The said incident took place on January 27 at 7 am in Dahegaon forest area of local Lakhandur tehsil.
In this incident, a person named Pramod Chaudhary (55), a resident of Lakhandur, died in a leopard attack. However, information has been given about the first incident of this year under the forest and human conflict in the forest area.
According to the information received, during the morning of the incident, the deceased along with some other persons had gone to collect firewood (sarpan) in Dahegaon forest area. However, there is information about having a large amount of leopards and other wild animals in this forest area. Meanwhile, a man who had entered the forest to collect firewood in the forest area was attacked by a leopard in search of prey.
However, as soon as the said attack came to the notice of other people, he fled from the spot and informed the villagers about the said incident. During this, the leopard hunted by dragging the attacked person for a distance of about 100 meters.
As soon as the local Forest Department of Lakhandur came to know about this incident, Forest Officer Rupesh Gavit, Forest Guard S.G. Khandagle, G.D. Hatta, Praful Raut and some other forest workers immediately reached the spot and sent the body for post-mortem after performing Panchnama.
The first incident of human hunting with a leopard
Regular public awareness is being done by the Forest Department to stop the conflict between wild animals and humans in the forest area. But under the public awareness being carried out by the Forest Department, due to non-compliance of the instructions by the citizens, accidents of human loss come to the fore due to incidents of wild animal and human conflict.
Meanwhile, this has become the first incident of this year when a leopard attacked and hunted a person who went to collect firewood in Dahegaon forest area of Tehsil. Due to which the citizens of the forest area have called upon the forest department to be vigilant.
Demand for compensation to the relatives of the deceased
There has been an incident of hunting by a leopard attacking a person who went to collect firewood in the forest area. The government is demanding immediate compensation to the families of the victims in this incident in the form of financial assistance.
Police registered the incident
In Dahegaon forest area of local Lakhandur tehsil, a person named Pramod Choudhary (55) fell victim to a leopard during 7 am on January 27. In this incident, the body has been sent for post-mortem by the local forest department after doing a panchnama of the spot. Although the said incident is about to be registered with the police.