Within a span of 24 hours, three leopards were captured in trap cages installed in the Shirur range of Pune district, including one sighted on the premises of the Fiat Automobiles plant in Ranjangaon. The Shirur range of the Junnar Forest Division has witnessed a sharp rise in human-leopard conflict in recent weeks, with three people – including two children – killed between October 12 and November 1.

According to officials from the Shirur range, a report of a leopard sighting on the Fiat Automobiles plant premises in Ranjangaon was received in the early hours of Wednesday. Following the sighting, forest officials advised the company management to take a series of precautionary measures. The leopard was suspected to have entered the premises from a nearby forest or an adjacent agricultura

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