Male leopard fell into well rescued at Kulunge
Kundapura, September 9: A male leopard fell accidentally into a well while hunting a dog at Kallumakki of Kulunge village in the taluk on Sunday morning was rescued by the Forest department.
On Sunday late night, the leopard came for hunting a dog and while carrying the dog from the courtyard of the house of Kallumakki Raghuram Kulal, the leopard fell into the open well. However, the dog escaped from falling into the well. But it sustained leopard bites.
Listening to the sound, Raghuram came out of the house and noticed the leopard drowning in the well. Suddenly, Raghuram put banana trunks to help the leopard from drowning in the water. Later, he informed the Shankaranarayana forest department which rushed to the spot with net and a cage. The entire well was covered with the net and later, the cage was released into the well. The leopard which was swimming with the help of banana trunks, entered into the cage and trapped.
The leopard catching operation which started at 1.30 am, completed at 5 am. The leopard aged between three-four years was taken along with the cage and released in the Reserve Forest.
Shankarnarayan Ranger A.A Gopal, Assistant Ranger Harish K, Forest guards Gururaj Nayak, Srikanth, Ravi Goliyangadi, Santosh, Jogi, forest watchers Shivu, Chandru, Laxman, and Samruddhi Youth Association members participated in the operation. Gram panchayat President Ravi Kulal cooperated with the forest staff.
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Punjab Police cops withdrawn from Kejriwal's security
Chandigarh, Jan 23 (PTI): Punjab Police personnel deployed in the security of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal have been withdrawn, the state police chief said on Thursday.
"Time to time, we get reports of threats to chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal and we share them with the concerned agencies.
"Following the directions of the Delhi police and the Election Commission today, we withdrew the component of the Punjab police in the security of Kejriwal ji," Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav told reporters in Patiala.
"We showed our concerns to them. We will remain in touch with them. We will share our inputs with the Delhi police," he said.
The development comes ahead of the elections for the 70-member Delhi Assembly on February 5. The poll results are set to be declared on February 8.
