Bengaluru: A conservation scientist and a forest department employee have suffered injuries while trying to capture a leopard which had entered into a school premises. The leopard was captured when it collapsed after being tranquillised. Rescuers took it to an animal rescue centre at the Bannerghatta National Park, over 30 km from the school.
Conservation scientist Sanjay Gubbi and forest department employee Benny Maurius suffered injuries while trying to corner and tranquillise the leopard that was moving around the corridors of the school. Gubbi, who is associated with the Nature Conservation Foundation, was called in to guide forest officials to capture it. Locals reported that it was the first time that the animal was sighted in the region. “It was a long struggle to capture the leopard. Although it was injected with tranquillisers it could be captured only when the medication took full effect,” said DCP Dr S Boralingaiah. The two persons who suffered injuries while trying to inject the tranquilliser into the leopard were out of danger, said the police.
