Overview

• The two- to two-and-a-half-year-old female was discovered around 6:30 am about one kilometre from the Pali police post on the Faridabad side.
• A postmortem was conducted Saturday, and officials cited severe head injuries consistent with impact from a fast-moving heavy vehicle.
• DFO Ramkumar Jangra said the leopard died on the spot from the impact and that teams are scanning CCTV to identify the vehicle.
• The road cuts between Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary and the Aravalli hills, where reports estimate roughly 50 leopards move through the corridor.
• Environmentalists and analysts renewed calls for overpasses and underpasses under existing NHAI guidelines, noting previous leopard roadkills in 2014, 2015 and 2019 and urging priority for crossings over safari projects.