Maximum punishment for those involved in killing leopard – Thewarapperuma
Legal action would be taken against all those who were involved in killing a tiger that had come to the village in Killinochchi – Ambalkulam area says the Deputy Minister of Wildlife and Regional Development Palitha Thewarapperuma.
Deputy Minister Palitha Thewarapperuma says wildlife officers who had visited a village on receiving information that a leopard had come to the village had been attacked by villagers and several of them had to be admitted to hospital. Later, when, with the assistance of the STF, the Wildlife officers were moving to the village to capture the leopard, the residents had assaulted the leopard with stones and poles and had killed it.
The culprits involved in the incident have been identified and legal action would be taken against them according to the Wildlife Ordinance said Mr Thewarapperuma.
