Thane, Nov 4 (PTI) The leopard that is believed to have killed three individuals in Shirur tehsil of Pune district in the past few weeks and against whom a shoot-at-sight order was issued, has been captured and relocation ordered, Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik said on Tuesday.

Amid a spike in leopard-human conflicts, the government will use artificial intelligence for satellite-based tracking and early warning systems to alert citizens about leopard movements, he said.

A 13-year-old boy in Shirur tehsil became the latest victim of the big cat on Sunday, marking the third case of human-animal conflict in a month, apparently involving the same feline. The tragic killing of the boy triggered an angry response from locals who set a patrolling van of the forest department on fire.

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