A team of forest department officials on Wednesday ( 28th june) rescued a fully grown ( 10 feet around) crocodile here in tumdi village of Malhargarh tehsil area of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh
Hundreds of villagers gathered at the spot after they saw a crocodile and three dozens of it's hatchlings. The villagers informed the forest department about the same.
After this, Mandsaur forest department's flying squad in-charge Pushkar Malviya and Jitendra Singh Panwar along with forest workers reached Tumdi village and rescued the crocodile from a ditch in the village with the help of villagers.

Along with this, after safely rescuing 35 baby crocodiles and three eggs in a pit, they took them to Mandsaur Forest Department office. From here, on instructions from the authorities, 35 hatchlings along with the crocodile were released in Chambal River near Sanjit village.