The leopard trapped in the Moraghat tea garden on Wednesday Picture by Biplab BasakA wild leopard has been trapped in a cage set up by foresters in a tea garden in the western Dooars, but the animal suffered injuries when onlookers poked it with sticks and rods. In another incident, the carcass of an adult female leopard was spotted in the Baradighi tea garden under Matialli block of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday. The leopard found trapped in the Moraghat tea garden under Dhupguri block on Wednesday morning is an adult male leopard. “For the past three weeks, a leopard had been straying into the garden. The foresters said the leopard whose carcass had been found in the Baradighi garden might have died because of some infection.

Source: The Telegraph May 08, 2019 20:03 UTC