Daltonganj: The leopard that took the life of a five-year-old boy in the Bhandariya block of the Garhwa district is now being called a maneater.
Kumar Ashish, the conservator of forest Palamu said that the post-mortem details of the boy killed and later half eaten by the leopard goes beyond doubt to confirm that it is now to be categorised as man-eating.” He said the leopard has licked human blood and devoured human flesh. “What more proof one needs now to classify this leopard as man-eating,” he quipped.
He said any wildlife that starts eating man becomes an object of extreme hatred by people as they begin to see it with lots of anger, frustration and revenge. We have alerted all rangers to be on guard against this new menace of the leopard under the directive of Kumar Ashutosh, the field director and chief conservator of the forest at Palamu Tiger Reserve, he said.
Tourist guides, tourist drivers and car drivers who ferry tourists etc have been cautioned not to go for even the slightest of adventurism in jungles at all. As the year 2022 is about to end, there is a huge rush of tourists everywhere in the jungles where are located scenic spots and caution is down in the lap of nature.