Sad! When a leopard got his head stuck while trying to drink water

Caught on cam: Leopard gets his head stuck while trying to drink water from a utensil in Rajsamand, Rajasthan. pic.twitter.com/6aAcezAGvm

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Rajsamand, Rajasthan: Leopard who got his head stuck in a utensil has been freed by forest department officials. pic.twitter.com/DBP6fvThLl

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Also read: Why I'm blaming you for lynching, killing and mutilating Purulia leopard

Let's get back to this Purulia leopard. As per reports, the leopard had wandered by the village when she was spotted, chased, cornered, mobbed. Panicked and terrified, she struck back. You would too, if harassed and beaten by a frenzied mob of over 3,000. And a cat has claws and canines, hence a villager or two got injured.

So, the leopard was lynched, killed, mutilated, paws chopped off, hung, not unlike a grotesque trophy.

This is not the first time this has happened. Barely a month ago, in the last week of May, a leopard was beaten to death in Mayurbhanj district Odisha, even as it tried, desperately, to flee. In February, a similar incident occurred near Katarniaghat sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh.

It gets worse. In 2011, a leopard that entered in the Dhamdhar village in Kalagarh (Corbett) Tiger Reserve, was mobbed, pelted and stoned. The forest department rushed in to rescue, capturing the cat in a cage to be taken away. But the leopard - trapped, terrified and helpless - was doused with kerosene and set ablaze. Kerosene was poured over the forest staff too, lest they try to help the leopard.

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