Combing operation for the leopard taken up the Forest Department
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Mysuru: A leopard was spotted in Mysuru's Infosys campus on Tuesday prompting Forest Department officials to take up a combing operation.
ACF Ravindra told DH, "The security staff of Infosys have sighted the leopard in the campus around 3.30 am on Tuesday morning. It has been confirmed with the CCTV footage also. Following the information, a team of 50 personnel of the forest department including a veterinarian (to tranquilise it) have taken up the combing operation. We are ready with all equipment including the net and cage to rescue the leopard," he said.
RFO Nadeem informed, "The security staff have spotted the leopard in the underground car parking area."
He said there was CCTV footage of the area 200 meters from that spot.
"We got the information by 4am. By 5 am we reached the spot and started the operation. We are using a normal drone during the day and planning to use thermal drone during the night, he said.
The operation is led by DCF Mysuru Wildlife Division, I B Prabhu Gowda. ACF Parameshwar, RFO Nadeem. Veterinarian Adarsh, Veterinarian Assistant Akram are also part of the operation.
In order to ensure the safety of the employees, the IT company has asked the staff to work from home on Tuesday. Officials of Infosys have confirmed this.