Overview
- Police and forest teams launched search operations around Pimparkhed in Shirur after the attack, with law enforcement deployed to keep order.
- Officials identified the victim as Rohan Bombe, 13, who was attacked around 3:45 pm near his home on farmland.
- Sunday’s death is the fifth fatal leopard attack reported in Pune district this year, following multiple recent incidents involving children and elderly residents.
- Residents accused the forest department of ignoring earlier leopard sightings, set a department office and vehicles on fire, and withheld last rites pending visits from senior officials.
- The Wildlife Institute of India reports a high leopard density in the Junnar division, as the state pursues red alerts for vulnerable villages and seeks Union approval for targeted sterilisation of selected leopards.