One of the locals, Kuldeep, a constable with the local police station, was attacked by the leopard. “I was on the roof of a house, trying to capture [a picture of] the leopard on my mobile phone, when it suddenly fell on the field. When I jumped onto the field to get my mobile phone, the leopard pounced on me out of nowhere and pinned me down,” he says. Kuldeep suffered an injury on his leg from the leopard’s claws. He adds: “It stared at me for a few seconds until the crowd scared it away.”