Shoot order for maneater Udaipur leopard

UDAIPUR/JAIPUR: Still elusive after claiming seven victims over 13 days, the killer leopard of Udaipur's Gogunda hills was on Tuesday officially declared a maneater. The forest department also issued shoot-at-sight orders for the leopard and deployed at least four trained shooters to hunt down the cat.

Army and police shooters were asked to spread out in the neghbourhood after the leopard killed 55-year-old Kamla Kanwar when she was tending to her cattle in front of her house on Tuesday. Chief wildlife warden Pawan Upadhyay has asked officials to first try to tranqilise the leopard, failing which it should be shot dead.

Officials said the leopard was believed to be in a radius of 3-4 km after its last kill. Since it attacked the woman despite cattle being available - a trait seen earlier too - the leopard was declared a maneater.