The project is part of the forest department’s ambitious plan to restore the ecological balance in the grasslands and parts of revenue areas where the population of wild boars, nilgai, and other such herbivores has been growing unchecked, leading to damage of standing crops of farmers.
The 20-day-old cub is believed to have got separated while the leopard family was translocating from their habitat near the Dev River that flows near Jaffarpura village due to road construction work.