Leopard rescued from well

Mangaluru: Forest officials have rescued an adult female leopard from a 60-ft-deep well at Kamarkaje in Kombaru village in Subramanya range limits on Sunday.
Providing details about the rescue, Subrahmanya range forest officer (RFO) H T Raghavendra told TOI that the department received information about the leopard on Sunday morning. “We suspect that it fell into the well while attacking a hen, and probably spent the whole night in the well located on the property belonging to Ramanna. The department received information by 11 am and swung into action,’’ he said.
He said since the animal was in the water, it was difficult to dart and tranquillise it, and hence a woodden structure tied to a rope was placed inside the well, with food on it, and the moment the leopard sat on it, it was dragged out of the well. It looks healthy and is currently under observation. Based on the direction of the senior officials, it will be released into the wild, the official added.
Staff from the Panja, Puttur and Subrahmanya range participated in the operation in the presence of Subrahmanya range ACF Praveen Shetty and Uppinangady range RFO Madhusudhan and Subrahmanya RFO Raghavendra.