Overview

• The child was studying outside his home in Kumshet’s Thakarwadi in the evening when a leopard dragged him away, officials said.
• Family members later discovered the partially eaten body roughly 100 metres from the house.
• The forest department has installed 10 cages and 5 camera traps, deployed a thermal drone survey and activated two rapid-response base camps for patrolling.
• Officials recorded this as the second leopard-related death in the Junnar jurisdiction this year, following an April fatality in Shirur.
• Longer-term measures are unresolved, with a leopard sterilization proposal under evaluation and the Manikdoh rehabilitation centre reported over capacity.