The Thane Forest Department is planning to install a trap in the Mulund area to capture and relocate a leopard, which killed and ate a six-year-old girl last week. After the incident, residents of the area appealed to the forest department and local politicians that a boundary wall be constructed and a trap be set so that the leopard could be caught and released elsewhere.

On the prowl: Last week Sanjana Thorat, a resident of Shankar Tekdi, which is adjacent to the SGNP in Mulund (West), was attacked by a leopard. Her head was recovered from the thicket, a few hundred metres from the family’s hutment, the next morning. File pic