Overview
- A late-night confrontation at a farmhouse in Anantaprasad under the Narsinghpur West forest range ended with a leopard dead and Subhranshu Bhol seriously injured.
- Family dogs alerted the household before the animal entered; Bhol used a kitchen knife to fight it off, sustaining head and other wounds.
- Bhol received first aid locally and was transferred to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack for advanced treatment, police and forest officials said.
- Forest authorities recovered the carcass, with a Joint Task Force visit, RCCF oversight, and a postmortem planned to establish circumstances and cause of death.
- Officials described the leopard as a roughly two-year-old male with no prior movement reported in the area, and they advised nearby villages to remain vigilant as separate Uttarakhand incidents highlight wider human–wildlife pressures.