Residents of Ompura Housing Colony in Budgam on Friday said they were living under constant fear as a leopard has been repeatedly entering into the locality for past one month.
A delegation of locals said the colony is situated in thevicinity of a dense forest area. “The leopard has so far killed a dozen sheep,many stray dogs and wounded a horse. It is almost a month now and the leopardis still preying around in the colony,” they said
There is so much fear that people hesitate to go out in theevenings and prefer to go in groups or use their vehicles to go to mosque forprayers,” they said.
A local said the wildlife experts have put up two cages inthe area to catch the wild animal but so far they haven’t met success.
“The leopard has been at times spotted during the broadlight daylight. Isn’t it time for the wildlife experts to try other methods tocage the leopard once and all,” asked the locals.