Watch: Leopard spotted on Hyderabad Agri varsity campus

Officials believe it is the same leopard that was spotted on the main road in the Katedan area on May 14. 

Hyderabad: Another sighting of a leopard on the city outskirts, this time near the PJTS Agricultural University on Thursday night, is keeping Forest and Police officials in Rajendranagar on their toes. With CCTV visuals of the leopard moving around between the university campus and the Grey Hounds training campus near Himayat Sagar coming out, teams of Forest officials and the Rajendranagar police are maintaining a watch on the University campus and its surroundings.

The movement of the leopard was captured around 8.30 pm on Thursday by surveillance cameras installed outside the Grey Hounds training campus near Himayat Sagar. Officials believe this was the same leopard sighted in Katedan on May 14.

“On Friday morning we found the pug marks too on the bund of a tank located in the forest area between Himayat Sagar and the Agricultural University. The animal went from the forest into the agriculture university and returned into the forest area,” said Bheem Naik, Divisional Forest Officer, Ranga Reddy, adding that the animal was believed to be staying in the Gagan Pahad reserve forest area and the Moinabad forest area.

“We have set up 25 camera traps to capture the movement of the leopard based on the movement that we tracked with the help of the pug marks. On Saturday, we will be visiting the place again to check if the cameras could get any more images of the leopard. There is nothing to panic as the animal is confined to the forest area for the last fortnight,” Bheem Naik said.

The leopard, officials feel, is the same one that was spotted resting on the Katedan road a fortnight ago. Panicked by the crowd that gathered, the leopard had then ran into a farmland compound alongside the NH 44 and has been elusive since then. A tracker dog of the Cyberabad police had taken the forest officials and the police to the university campus while trailing it, though it later lost the scent.

Forest officials have meanwhile advised people in the nearby areas not to go out alone and to move in groups of two or three.

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