Thane, Jun 9 (IANS): Forest officials rescued a deer that strayed from the nearby jungles and got stuck in a building gate, injuring itself here on Tuesday morning.

Around 7 a.m. some residents of B-10 Ritu Enclave Society in Anand Nagar, saw the deer with its head and right front leg apparently trapped in the iron grill gate of the building compound.

They immediately alerted the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Thane Forest Department and the local disaster unit for help, said Range Forest Officer (RFO) Rajendra Patil.

A team comprising Sanjay Pawar, Sandeep More, Sujay Koli, Ramakant More and others rushed to the building to find the deer injured, appearing scared and jittery.

They covered its head and then slowly pushed it out of the iron gate, calmed it, administered first-aid and then sped off in an animal ambulance for treatment to the SGNP veterinary authorities for treatment.

The female deer, around one year old is suspected to have wandered out of the SGNP, probably looking for food and somehow got stuck in the grilled gate sometime in the early hours on Tuesday, said Patil.

This is the second instance of a deer rescue from a thickly populated urban locality of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in the past one month.

In the early hours of May 10, a deer chased by a leopard down a hillock, had crashed through the roof of a chawl in Hanuman Tekdi, near IIT-Bombay in Powai, as the bewildered family slept nearby.

The equally stunned creature was safely rescued and later released into the nearby forests, as the city continued to remain under a lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.