With regular sightings of wild animals on the Tirumala trekking routes and the recent fatal attack on a six-year-old girl by a leopard, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded a judicial probe.
The BJP attributed the foray of animals out of the wild to the presence of red sanders smugglers in Seshachalam forest. “At any given point of time, there are hundreds of smugglers who are out in the forest felling the red sanders”, said the party’s State spokesperson G. Bhanuprakash Reddy.
