Today a few angry UP villagers burnt a leapord to death!!

"The charred body of the leopard was recovered after the house was completely razed," district forest officer KK Singh told rediff.com on Friday morning. "In fact, we had promptly rushed a team to trap the animal shortly after we learnt about the leopard's strike on Thursday, but the locals not only disallowed our men to even enter the village but also misbehaved with them,"  Singh added.

State chief wildlife conservator DNS Suman maintained, "Legal action will be initiated against the mob responsible for killing the leopard; we have already told local officials to get a criminal case registered." Suman added, "No one has the right to take the law into his hands, and in this case our men were already on the job and would have managed to trap the animal alive if the villagers had not come in the way."

Assuming all these statements true, as the media projects, I have a few doubts:

1. The leapord had been entering the village for three weeks

2.It has killed 3 people over the three weeks.

3.Unconfirmed reports blame the animal for killing at least two other persons between January and March.

Now, whose fault is this? Against whom should the legal action be initiated? Having lost 5 people in three weeks (who knows how many of the 5 are bread winners?), and with no help, what would the villagers do? Wait until a few more are also lost? Isn't their anger/fury right?

Let him that is wise think!!

My opinion: I feel the anger is actually the displaced anger.Poor leapord, it was victimised!!