54 year old villager/ farmer brutally killed by a maneater in Rudraprayag, and a woman injured.
The maneater attacks and subsequent fatalities have become the order of the day in Uttarakhand especially in the Garhwal regions all the districts. These days the maneaters are forcibly entering houses in townships too creating havoc. Not an alternate day passes when unfortunate incidents of human kills do not happen in Uttarakhand killing women, children and old aged person in particular. On roadsides especially near human habitats they can be seen conveniently prowling for human flesh.
On Wednesday one such tragedy occured in Gram Panchayat Raundla in Rudraprayag, Garhwal district where a maneater leopard ( Guldaar) brutally killed a villager and farmer Manwar Singh Bisht while he was going towards the cow shed to arrange fooder for the cows.
According to the sources his mutilated dead body was found two hundred metres away in the bushes/ shrubs where it is believed the maneater must have grabbed and dragged him to eat his meat.
According to the pradhan of the said village Anil Negi and villager Devendra Chamoli the deceased when alive had gone to his Cow shed early in the morning at 5 AM to feed the cows, completely unaware that attaguc fate is awaiting him.
When he does didn’t reached his house lately, the family members curiously went to the cow shed to locate him but unfortunately he wasn’t there though the blood stains were visible near the door of the shed.
After an intense search his bloody dead body was found two hundred metres away in a mutilated condition.
The deceased was the only earning member of the family. He was 54 years old and his daughter was married while son is in Dehradun.
On hearing the tragic news the local lawmaker Bharat Choudhary and the Nagar Palike Chief Santosh Rawat reached the residence of the bereaved family and demanded government job for one of the family members including fixing of an iron cages to trap the carnivores declaring him the maneater.
Meanwhile the family was presented a cheque of 1.80 lakhs as monetary compensation, the rest will be disbursed later on. The government of Uttarakhand has fixed Rs. 6 lakhs as financial compensation for the family of the deceased killed by maneater of wild animals.
In another incident today a 42-year-old Sangeeta Devi, wife of Anar Singh Panwar, was injured when a leopard attacked her at 5 pm today in Naughar village near Lambgaon Nagar Panchayat in Tehri district.
Sangeeta Devi was first brought to the Community Health Center in Lambgaon and then referred to the District Hospital in Bouradi, New Tehri. Doctors have declared her out of danger. She has leopard claws on her head and cheek.
