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Download PDF Forest department officials rescued a saltwater crocodile from the pond of Hoseni Dalan at the city’s Bakshibazar yesterday.
Somebody might have possessed it illegally and set it free in the pond sometime in the previous night fearing arrest during the state of emergency, locals and wildlife experts suspect.
Saltwater crocodiles are an endangered species and only a few hundred could be found in the Sundarbans.
Locals discovered the reptile on the steps leading to the pond in the morning. The exciting news soon spread and hundreds of people thronged the spot to have a look at the creature, a sub adult female.
Informed, Tapan Kumar Dey, wildlife expert of the Department of Forest, rushed to the spot and rescued it in the afternoon.
“The creature was on the steps of the pond. I made a noose with a rope and put it through its head. Then with the help of others, I pulled it up on the bank,” Tapan said.
The crocodile is five feet and eight inches long and nearly four and half years old, the wildlife expert said after measuring it.
The creature was put in a long wooden box and sent to Cox’s Bazar last night. “We will release it at the crocodile farm in the Dulahazra Safari Park,” Tapan said.
Nobody exactly knows how the crocodile came to the pond in the densely populated Bakshibazar area.
“Someone must have secretly set it free in the Hoseni Dalan pond last night,” Syed Fasih Hossain, general secretary of the Hoseni Dalan Imambara Welfare Association, said.
But he could not say how one could do so as the pond is all walled with iron grills.
Out of reverence for the Hoseni Dalan as a holy place, people here did not cause any harm to the crocodile, locals said.
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