WOMEN KILLED IN DUGADDA, PAURI GARHWAL, UTTARAKHAND BY MANEATER TIGER/ LEOPARD

Just yesterday i.e. on 12th August a man eater tiger/ leopard/ panther has yet again killed a women in the jungles of Gram Sabha Juva near Dugadda about 15 kilometres away from Kotdwar township of district Pauri Garhwal.

The ill fated woman had gone to the nearby forest with the cows for grazing and collect fodder. Wife of the local inhabitant of Surendra Singh had as usual gone woth the cows for grazing but a maneater who might be looking for human flesh pounced on her and grabbed her into the dense jungles badly mutilating her face and killing on the spot.

The local Patwari and the forest officials have already retrieved the dead body of the woman and send for postmortem.

The newsviewsnetwork have been writing on these diabolical maneater killings taking place in Uttarakhand since long and the posts of these maneater killings are also becoming viral on social media but the incumbent government seems to be least worried to counter these tragedies.

Just a few days ago there had been number of maneater killings in the Raivala area near Rishikesh and Dehradun where an incident of maneater kiling was caught on camera.

If one goes by the statistics of the forest department there have been lots of such maneater attacks and subsequent killings during the last six months though this dreaded menace is going on for several years.

In order to protect and preserve the wild life, especially the decreasing population of tigers, leopards and panters in the country and Uttarakhand forests the courts have put complete ban on killings of these predators.

It is believed that about 200 or more tigers/ leopards have been declared maneaters in Uttarakhand and the killings of human beings goes unabated to the shock of those living here.

The popular wild life parks Rajaji and Jim Corbett situated in Uttarakhand and in the global tourist maps entice lots of tourists every year to these parks for convenient viewing the these dreaded maneaters.

It is believed that these tigers/ leopards have been set free in the jungles who travel hundreds of miles every night in search of prey and not finding the animal prey go in search of human beings near the human settlements on roadsides or villages near the jungles. Once these animals taste the human blood their hunger for human prey increases manifold and this is what is happening in the hills of Uttarakhand in both Garhwal and Kumaon divisions.

Hundreds of children, women and senior citizens have so far become the prey of these maneaters. It may be recalled that in 1918 n onwards the Rudraprayag maneater killed more than 125 inhabitants of Garhwal and wss finallykilled by the then British hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett who had during his stay in Nainital and Kaladhungi killed about 90 maneaters before 1947.

One Indian hunter Joy Ukeel has also killed the similar number of maneaters till now but of now avail. The maneater killings of human being is going unabated and people compelled to live indoors during evening hours apprehensive of the maneater attacks.

The former CM and present member of parliament from Haridwar has also raised his serious concern during the zero hour in Lok Sabha demanding immediate erection of electric wire fence around the jungles of Uttarakhand where maneaters are active and grant of adequate financial compensation including a government job to next of the kin of the deceased.