'This is strange': Leopard spotted in residential area in UP's Ghaziabad, watch video

A video which has surfaced on the internet, shows a leopard, taking a stroll at a residential area in Ghaziabad. According to the reports by PTI, it also entered the generator room of the vice chairperson of the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA). It was when a sweeper was about to turn on the generator, the leopard hopped in, making him scream. Few people attacked him and this led to the leopard entering an institute campus. 

Leopard in Ghaziabad residential area 

A video uploaded by ANI shows the leopard taking a stroll in a residential area. The video has been taken from a CCTV camera inside the house. According to the caption of the video, the location is Kavi Nagar and the leopard was rescued by Forest Department officials. Another video has been uploaded by Twitter user named ‘Abhishek Prasad’. This video is another CCTV footage and the leopard can be seen taking a walk in the lane, outside a few houses. As per the caption, this video is from Rajnagar in Ghaziabad.

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District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey told PTI that in another footage, the animal was seen inside the house of the senior superintended of police. He told that five teams of the forest department were sent for the rescue mission. With this, the department urged the residents to stay inside as a precautionary measure. 

Stunned on watching the video, netizens bombarded the comment section. One Twitter user wrote, "Humans should be rescued and sent back. All Delhi NCR looks like an encroachment". Another person wrote, "The same Feeling "Leopard came to see it's ancestral property grabbed by Human Beings". Tweeples have also Retweeted the video with their own caption. 

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