Leopard patrolling outside police station in Uttarakhand catches netizens' attention; See

One is aware of the number of leopard attacks that happen in Uttarakhand. However, recently, a short CCTV footage released by Indian Forest Services Officer Vaibhav Singh has painted a different picture of the animal. On Friday, Indian Forest Service officer Vaibhav Singh shared a video of a leopard patrolling outside Devprayag police station for a few seconds.

The video shared on Friday afternoon is getting circulated on various social media platforms and has managed to catch the attention of the netizens. 

Check out the video: 

#Leopard policing the streets of #Devprayag ! Video captured by CCTV of Police Station Devprayag !! @vidyathreya @Koko__Rose @uttarakhandcops #Livingwithleopards !! pic.twitter.com/slLgPExUYZ

— Vaibhav Singh,IFS (@VaibhavSinghIFS) July 23, 2020

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As seen in the video, the leopard that runs to catch hold of the cattle decides to give them a miss and decides to patrol outside the police station. Monitoring the leopard through the CCTV, when a policeman decides to go out, the leopard flees without a trace.

The video first shared by Vibhav Singh was later shared by his colleague, who wrote: "A new cop policing the streets of Devprayag." (sic) Here's what IFS officer Susanta Nanda had to say: 

A new cop policing the streets of Devprayag....

CCTV footage of the Police station. Shared by colleague ⁦@VaibhavSinghIFS⁩. pic.twitter.com/a3xzjyIvE4

— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) July 23, 2020

Netizens react to the leopard video: 

Leopard is a part of devprayag & rudraprayag area

— Aamir hussain (@aamir_hussain12) July 23, 2020

Kese bhaga 😂😂😂

— Prasun Bowade (@prasun004) July 23, 2020

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Tiger Zinda hai

— Dharamveer Singh (@imdharamveer) July 23, 2020

👌

— Eternal Traveller 🇮🇳 (@TravelerEternal) July 23, 2020

Reminds of Leopard of Rudraprayag by corbett

— Dhrubo Mitra (@DhruboMitrs) July 23, 2020

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Recently, a video of a leopard attacking a dog in Nainital went viral. In the video, a leopard enters a house in Nainital to hunt a dog. For the past few years, the number of leopard attack cases in Uttarakhand has exponentially increased. Here's the video: 

#WATCH Uttarakhand: A leopard entered a house, attacked and killed a dog & took it away last night in Tallital. pic.twitter.com/xX2tf4KYMt

— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020

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