Mumbai: Leopard sighting at Marol, hunt on
Big cat was captured by housing society’s CCTV cameras early this week
Marol locals were surprised to learn that a full-grown leopard had taken a stroll at Bhavani Nagar, next to Aarey Milk Colony, a few days ago. After CCTV footage of the big cat surfaced, the forest department increased patrolling and set up numerous camera traps in the area.
This comes just weeks after a make-up artist who was working on the sets of Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff-starrer Bade Miyan Chote Miyan was attacked by a leopard in Mumbai's Filmcity.
According to Santosh Shetty, secretary of Bhavani Nagar Cooperative Housing Federal Society, “The leopard was initially seen in CCTV footage at 1.30 am on Tuesday, March 7. We could see it approaching plot 1 just near the entrance of Bhavani Nagar. Later, at around 2.06 am, cameras recorded a leopard at plot no 2. The animal was last seen at plot no 3 at roughly 2.10 am, at which point we lost sight of it.”
