Watch: 12-year-old Maharashtra Boy Calmly Traps Leopard In A Room After it Enters Banquet Hall

A minor boy from Maharashtra’s Malegoan had a narrow escape after a leopard entered a hall where the 12-year-old was sitting. The incident happened on Wednesday when the boy identified as Mohit Ahire was playing a game on a mobile phone.

The video is evidence of the boy’s bravery and his swift action when he was sitting near the main door. While the boy was busy playing the game, he noticed that a leopard entered through the door and went straight.

The boy without losing his calm rushed outside and locked the door. Soon Mohit alerted the locals who then informed the forest department. Officials from the forest department coordinated with the local police and tranquilized the leopard. The large cat later was caged.

Meanwhile, a male leopard escaped from a quarantine center located near a zoo in Pune and was captured after about 40 hours following a multi-team operation involving more than 100 personnel and use of thermal drone cameras, an official said.

The big cat, aged seven-and-a-half years, is suspected to have escaped from the quarantine facility in the early hours of Monday by bending a bar of the cage.

It entered one of the cages set up to trap it at around 9.15 pm on Tuesday, the Pune civic body official said.

“Officials found the leopard missing from the quarantine centre situated near the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park at around 9 am on Monday, following which an extensive search operation involving over 100 personnel from the zoo, quarantine centre, forest department and fire department.

Multiple thermal drone cameras were deployed to trace the wild animal,” he said. The leopard, born at a zoo in Karnataka, was recently brought to the zoological park in Katraj area of Pune, he said.

(with PTI inputs)