Who are the target shooters deployed for the operation to capture or eliminate the leopards?

An Indian Air Force veteran with an experience in training target shooters and neutralising wild animals and three shooters from the Junnar area trained under him have been deployed to tranquilise and capture or shoot and eliminate a leopard, which is proving to be a threat to human life in Shirur taluka.

Their deployment comes a day after 13-year-old Rohan Bombe was killed in Shirur taluka on Sunday afternoon in the fifth such fatality arising from human-leopard conflict in Pune district this year. This is the second death in a leopard attack in Pimparkhed village and a third in the area, in just less than a month.

Following orders of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF)—the head of Maharashtra’s forest department, the forest department sought assistance from Chandraka