Leopard cub enters Maha home, dozes off beside 2 children After 36 years in Pak jail, Jaipur man finally home

NASHIK: In a strange occurrence, a leopard cub managed to make its way underneath the hem of a mosquito net inside which two children were sleeping and dozed off beside them till their mother got alerted to its presence early on Tuesday in Maharashtra’s Nashik district.

The incident happened in Dhamangaon area of tribaldominated Igatpuri taluka in the district, the official said.

Forest Circle officer Gorakshyanath Jadhav said that the three-month-old cub may have entered the house of Manisha Barde under the cover of darkness when she opened the main door early today morning.

“At around 5:30am today, Barde found the leopard cub sleeping beside her two chil- dren on the ground inside the mosquito net. She carefully took the children out of the net without disturbing the leopard. She then raised an alarm which alerted other villagers,” said Jadhav.

Jadhav said that a team of forest officials arrived at Barde’s house and rescued the leopard and brought it to the department’s local office.

He said that it would be released into the forest later as per procedure. JAIPUR: After 36 years in a Pakistan jail, Gajanand Sharma was finally reunited with his family here on Tuesday.

The family members had come to local MP Ramcharan Bohra’s house where several other people too had gathered to welcome Sharma, now 68, to his home city. Sharma’s wife Makhni Devi garlanded him. Family members including his grandson and granddaughters greeted him with sweets.

Later, the family left for their own home in the city’s Brahmpuri area.

On Monday, watching the news on a mobile phone, Makhni Devi’s eyes had welled up when she saw Gajanand Sharma walk into India through the Wagah-attari border. “Yes, he is my husband, but he has become very weak and lean,” she had said at her home, surrounded by her family, neighbours and reporters.