A monitor lizard was rescued from New Town’s CE Block near Axis Mall on Thursday.

The lizard, which had got stuck in the gap between a wall and the shutter of Daily Needs, a shop on street No. 202, was first spotted by two of its employees.

They alerted the shop owner, Sumit Singha, who stays in AK Block, and other residents of the area.

Singha told his employees not to harm the reptile and called Ankur Roy Choudhury, the vice-chairman of the New Town News and Forum, an NGO.

“I asked him to help as I was worried that someone might harm it or kill it,” said Singha.

Choudhury then called up a forest department official, who in turn informed the Wildlife Rescue and Transit Centre in Salt Lake’s Baisakhi.

A team from the centre arrived at the spot and rescued the monitor lizard.

“Our team reached within 30 minutes. We saw that the lizard had climbed on top of the rolling shutter of the shop and was stuck,” said the official. “We used a long Y-stick to bring it down.”

The monitor lizard was then taken to the centre where a veterinary doctor checked in it.

“It is exhausted and we will keep it in observation for sometime before releasing it back into the wild,” said the official.