Ayodhya, Oct. 14 -- The Forest Department sleuths captured a leopard that had been roaming the highly secure Dogra Regiment Cantonment area of Ayodhya for a year and confined it in an iron cage today.
District Divisional Forest Officer Prakhar Gupta said the Forest Department team tranquilized the leopard, caged it, and loaded it onto a truck.
For the past one year, local residents had been complaining to the district administration, Cantonment Board, and Army officials about the presence of a leopard in the area.
This morning, some people noticed a leopard trapped in an iron wire net installed by the Army.
On receiving the information, Cantonment Station Officer Pankaj Singh, along with his police team, reached the spot where the leopa...