10 cages, cameras placed to catch killer leopard in Tapi

Surat: Ten cages and as many cameras have been installed to catch the leopard which brutally mauled to death a three-year-old girl in a village of Songadh taluka of Tapi district.
Forest department sources said the victim Vaishnavi Bham was preyed upon by the leopard when she was walking behind her mother in the dark in Hanumantiya village late on Friday night.
Anand Kumar, deputy conservator of forest (DCF), Tapi district said, “Primary investigation revealed that the girl was killed by a leopard and traps have been set to nab the animal. Along with 10 cages, as many as 10 cameras have been installed while a 20-member forest team is active to cage the leopard.”
Her father, Rahul Bham (28), a native of Khargone village of Madhya Pradesh, lives on village outskirts and works as a labourer in a brick kiln.
On Friday late evening, Rahul was at work and had asked his wife to get tea for him.
When his wife and daughter Vaishnavi were walking to the kiln, the mother turned around and noticed that the little one was missing. She raised an alarm and people started searching for Vaishnavi.
Her dismembered head and body was found at some distance in a sugarcane farm.