Trapped fishing cat mistaken for leopard in Greater Noida

In the second such incident in the last two months, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Forest department received word of a leopard being trapped in a village well on Saturday — only to discover that it was a fishing cat.

The UP Forest department said the endangered cat was straying into human habitation as wetlands shrink in the face of rapid urbanisation.

Panic spread after word spread that a leopard was trapped in Bankapur village of Jewar area. But Forest department officials, on reaching the village, discovered a fishing cat — a medium-sized wild cat — trapped inside the well.