After Week-Long Effort, Forest Department Captures Leopard In Nashik's Artillery Centre

The Forest Department has successfully captured a leopard roaming in the Artillery Centre, Nashik area. The area had become sensitive after a leopard attacked a 2-year-old boy, Sreetik Gangadharan, in the army colony near the Kargil Gate entrance.

The CCTV footage near Rajput Colony in Vadner Dumala Shivara showed a leopard hunting a dog on the night of September 29, 2025. Based on this information, the Forest Department caught the leopard after eight days of continuous hard work.

On September 30, at 8:30 am, a team from the Forest Department and the Sangamner Rescue Team found the remains of the hunted dog. A cage was erected across the drain, and the leopard was covered with a net to prevent it from falling into the nearby well.

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