The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has had several guests, including monkeys and leopards, on their Powai campus, with the latest being a cow that strayed into a classroom taking the students by surprise. While most instances have been harmless, an incident from two weeks back left a student with abdominal injuries. Akshay Prasanna Latha, a student of College of Engineering in Trivandrum who was interning at IIT-B, was unlocking his bicycle when two raging bulls knocked him down outside the hostel on July 12.

However, the IIT-B administration swung into action to address the man-animal conflict on the campus after the video of the cow taking a stroll inside the classroom went viral on Sunday. It has planned to set up a committee, comprising BMC officials, animal activists and NGOs, to look into the issue. The representatives are expected to suggest ways to avoid man-animal conflict on the campus. "The Director has constituted a committee to look into the issue of human vs. animal conflict on the campus. The members will consult the BMC and animal experts before taking any conclusive steps," the IIT-B spokesperson said.