A daily wager in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri, Shiva Kewat, is a troubled man. He has been so for three years and this is not because of his financial or living conditions. His troubles are thanks to a murder of crows that have identified him as their sworn enemy.

Every time Kewat steps out of his house in Shivpuri's Sumela village, he carries a stick along, to protect himself from the crow attack that waits right outside his door, reported the Times of India.

It all started three years ago when Kewat found a crow chick stuck in a net and rushed to rescue it. The baby crow died in his hands and there was not much he could to do revive it.

"It died in my hands. If only I could explain it to them, I was only trying to help," a hapless Kewat told TOI while looking up at the skies and bracing for the fleet of swooping crows.

Ever since the death of the chick three years ago, the crow families in the neighbourhood have identified Kewat and they seem to be in no mood to forgive him although he says it was not his fault.

Even after all these years, every time he steps out of the house, the crows come swooping down to poke and bite him all over his body and head. The daily ordeal has become a source of entertainment for his neighbours and there is not much that can be done.

Kewat has several injury marks on his hands and head. He says initially he didn't take the attacks seriously. But soon he realised that the revengeful crows were not attacking anyone else and had identified him as their enemy to target him every day.

He is still surprised at the face recognition power of these crows, which is a new discovery for him.

The man now hopes that the crows forgive him after all these years.