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Road construction and blasts for making tunnels continues till late evenings in Simrol, Choral area, leading to habitat destruction and dislocation of wild animals especially leopards in the region. Leopards are prominently found in Choral and Mhow range in Indore district.

Road construction and blasts for making tunnels continues till late evenings in Simrol, Choral area, leading to habitat destruction and dislocation of wild animals especially leopards in the region. Leopards are prominently found in Choral and Mhow range in Indore district.
While the forest department had given limited permission for working later than sunset to avoid disturbing nocturnal animals, the construction work still goes on beyond sunset. This has lead to leopards crawling into other areas to find rescue from blasts and construction.
In another such incident, three leopards, i.e. a leopardess and two cubs found refuge in the campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore. They escaped from the forest to save themselves about a week ago.
However, the fear-struck IITians have called for help from the forest department to rescue the leopard family.
The three leopards were sighted on the campus of IIT Indore about a week ago. Immediately, the institute prompted the forest department to set up cages to capture it. It has been a week since the first sighting, but the forest department has not been able to rescue the leopards and cubs from the campus.  
IIT Indore representative Sumit Kumar said, “We spotted a leopard with two cubs in the campus about seven days ago.” After which, the authorities called upon the forest team.
“They set up various traps to rescue the family, but to no avail,” Kumar said. He added that the thread of a human-animal conflict looms over the campus until the family is rescued.
“The last we saw of the family of leopards was about three days ago,” Kumar said.
Locals say leopard sightings are quite normal in this area. Part of IIT, too, was once forest land. The forests of Choral and Mhow district are habitat of wild animals, as per records.

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