Panic as another leopard
sighted in B’ngir
Monday, 17 September
2018 | PNS | BALANGIR
In
yet another instance of leopard sighting, the people in Balangir saw a leopard
at Mahima Chowk near Gulmi forest, 50km from here, on September 14.
Consequently, there is panic in the locality.
According
to reports, people saw the leopard sitting on a concrete structure of water
pipes.
Notably,
the cement structure is near the water project at Dumerbahal from which
water is supplied to the ordnance factory at Badmal through large pipes. While
going through the road towards Balangir from Titilagarh, people saw the leopard
sitting over a cement structure on the day of Nuakhai. Staying a few minutes,
the leopard vanished.
According
to sources, there are around eight leopards in Titilagarh forest range. A good
deal of the area comes under the jurisdiction of ordnance factory, Badmal. As
there is water source of Dumerbahal project and protection due to the boundary
of the ordnance factory, leopards are often sighted here. There is no incident
of any attack by leopard so far.
However,
Titilagarh range officer J Nanda rubbished the report of leopard sighting. “We
don't have any reports of leopard sighting in our area,” he said even as there
were confirmed sources of the sighting.
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