Estate workers stage dharna as leopard attack continues

Coimbatore | Sunday | 3rd June, 2018

Summary:

Sekhar, forest range officer of Manombolly range, and the police held talks with the protesters and pacified them. While Chandramathi of Cinchona first division was attacked by a leopard on Friday evening, a 10-year-old girl was injured in a similar leopard attack at TANTEA estate at Periyakallar near Valparai on May 25. more-inWorkers and residents of theTamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation (TANTEA) estate at Cinchona near Valparai staged a dharna on Saturday raising various demands after a 45-year-old-woman was injured in a leopard attack on Friday. They demanded Forest Department authorities to place a cage to trap leopards that stray into estate quarters. However, Forest Department has placed six camera traps to track movements the big cats..