Jaipur, 27 November (LatestNewsX) – A week after a leopard was first spotted in Vidhyadhar Nagar, residents of a residential neighbourhood in the Pink City reported seeing another big cat on Thursday, sparking widespread alarm.
Video from local CCTV cameras showed the animal skulking near Sikar House in Shastri Nagar, crossing a road in Kalyan Colony and even walking across the rooftop of a house. Using that footage, teams from the Forest Department began a search around a plot in C‑Block, Sikar House. Despite operating for over five hours, they failed to locate the leopard.
“People are very nervous,” one resident said, adding, “There is an atmosphere of fear and anxiety across the area after the leopard’s movement.”
Officials from the Forest Department speculate that the creature may have slipped into the neighbourhood from the Nahargarh forest range and could have slipped back into the wild by early morning.
The incident was not the first. On 20 November, a leopard wandered into the VVIP Civil Lines area, which houses the governor, the chief minister and several ministers. CCTV cameras along the main road of Sikar House and in Kalyan Colony captured the animal’s movements. Around 6 a.m., dogs began to bark incessantly, prompting some residents to peek outside; nothing visible could be spotted in the dark. Later footage revealed the leopard gliding across rooftops and streets, eventually slipping into a school. After several hours, the animal was tranquilised.
The leopard was finally sedated inside a house on Lane No. 6 at approximately 11 a.m. Teams then busied themselves with preparing the animal for transport to Jhalana Reserve.
In recent months, Jaipur has reported sightings of leopards in numerous locations, including Civil Lines, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Durgapura, Gopalpura, Jaisinghpura, Jagatpura, Malviya Nagar Industrial Area, and Kho Nagorian. Forest officials attribute these frequent sightings to a decline in prey within nearby forest areas, pushing the animals closer to settled human zones. Wildlife experts echo this sentiment, noting that shrinking habitats and a lack of food in forested regions have compelled leopards to venture nearer to human settlements.
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