Just two days after the death of Saplodi Gaon woman by maneater, another woman grievously injured in Rikhnikhal block.

There is yet another shocking incident of a man – eater attack on a woman in Pauri Garhwal district injuring her grievously, just two days after a woman of Saploni village under Pabo Block, succumbed to a predator’s attack, creating quite a sensation in and around Pauri Garhwal district villages.

According to the anguishing news poring in, a resident of Village Barai, in Rikhnikhal block namely Chuki Devi Bharadwaj who is a widow has gone to the nearby jungle to arrange fodder for the domestic animals.

While she was busy arranging green fodder ( grass etc) for the domestic animals, a man eater on prowl for human flesh pounced on her and injured her grievously.

Her pictures unambiguously reveal the severe nature of struggle the victim had with the predator finally freeing her from its deadly clutches, after lot of physical confrontation.

The attack was so brutal that after receiving grievous injuries the woman victim became unconscious with her deep wounds of the man – eater paws profusely bleeding in pain.

According to the villagers the predator seemed to be a horrible animal sort of mix of the leopard and the tiger looking quite heavy and weighty, as the residents of the area had not seen or had the inkling of any man eater wandering here.

According to journalist Prabhupal Singh Rawat the severely injured victim has been admitted at Kotdwar hospital as a health community centre situated 25 kilometres away is devoid of health facilities.

It may be recalled that man eater leopards, tigers including wild bear attacks have become a common phenomenon in Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand with women, children, youths n senior citizens becoming their easy victim and the government, its forest department becoming a mere spectator.

A month or so ago a professional hunter Mr. Bhandari was hired by the forest department to kill a female man eater Guldaar ( Leopard) called “Bagh”, in Uttarakhand after it brutally killed a seven year old girl after grabbing her from a house compound in Tehri Garhwal.

The predator was killed after two days of search finally the villagers of the area including resident of surrounding villages heaving a great sigh of relief.

There have been tremendous dreaded incidents of man eater human killings in various districts of Uttarakhand with such tragic news appearing after every second day in Pauri Garhwal, Chamoli, Tehri, Garhwal, Pithoragarh, Nainital n Almora districts.

The government of Uttarakhand’s forest department should compile a concrete statistical data of the man eater killings n injured persons including tracking n kills of man eaters to arrive at the quantam of loss to human lives.
The Vanadhikar Andolan Sammittee founder Kishore Upadhyay who is now a BJP lawmaker from Tehri Garhwal had been earlier demanding Rs 25 lakhs as financial compensation for the bereaved families including a government job to a member of the deceased. But now, what has happed to his demand is anyone’s guess?