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It is said that commuters on the road captured the video of the leopard, which stood still as the vehicle lights focused on it.

A team of forest officials reached the spot and scanned the area, but could not find pug marks of a leopard.

Officials find no pug marks or scat, say going by victim’s version, it could either be a wild boar or wild animal

According to villagers, a farmer from the village, Dadige Laxminarsu left buffalo and calf in the cattle shed located in his agricultural field near Satyanarayanapalle on Saturday night.

After the leopard got trapped in one of the five cages set up by the forest department, officials shifted it to the Nehru Zoo Park on Friday.

The forest officials placed a few camera traps close to a nursery of the forest department at Ibrahimpur where the leopard movement was captured.

The leopard had strayed into the airport lands on Sunday. The surveillance cameras of RGIA captured images of the leopard's movement.

Infact, the leopard came close to one of the cages, with its movements being captured in camera traps. A goat has been kept in the cage as bait for the leopard and it might get trapped in a day or two, Ranga Reddy DFO Sudhakar Reddy said.

The leopard had entered the airport lands on Sunday and the images were caught in the surveillance cameras.

The leopard was sighted near the aircraft repair center located at the RGI Airport premises.

The incident, which happened in the Ibrahimpur forest block of Dubbak Forest Range in Siddipet, is said to have occurred about a month ago, but came to light on Sunday.

DCP (North) Manoj Kumar Meena stated that on Monday at 6:14 a.m., Wazirabad police station received a PCR call reporting a leopard entering a house in Jagatpur village.

Across Telangana, the leopard population came down from 334 in 2018 to 297 in 2022. On the other hand, in Amrabad, the population went up from 94 to 121 within the reserve limits

Madhya Pradesh houses the largest population of leopards in the country: 3907 (2018: 3421), followed by Maharashtra (1985), Karnataka (1,879) and Tamil Nadu (1,070).

The movement of a leopard close to human habitations at Rukmapur village in Chegunta Mandal was captured by a few daily wage labourers on their mobile phones on Monday night.

The dead leopard was found far from agriculture fields.

The cow belonging to a farmer died on the spot after being attacked by the leopard

Following complaints from villagers, forest officials patrolled the areas and noticed pug marks of the leopard.

When locals informed the forest officials, they reached the village immediately and noticed that the leopard was sick.

TTD officials have appealed to devotees to be alert and cautious while trekking on the Alipiri-Tirumala walkway and urged them to walk in groups only.