Overview
- Construction workers reported the animal trapped on Monday in a nearly 30-foot-deep pillar trench at the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High Speed Rail site near Maretha, Vadodara.
- Wildlife activist Hemant Vadhwana and a Gujarat forest team secured the 9.5-foot, roughly 150-kg crocodile and lifted it out with a hydraulic crane after about two hours.
- The crocodile was handed over to the forest department following the extraction.
- Vadhwana said this was the second recent rescue at the project site, which lies along a stretch known for a sizeable crocodile population.
- Local reports described large crowds watching the lift, and police separately confirmed a fatal crocodile attack on a 15-year-old in neighboring Rajasthan in September.