An overnight operation involving thermal drones, live-feed cameras, and a carefully planned evacuation of livestock helped the Maharashtra Forest Department safely trap a leopard at Tanashi Bhimarpada in Dahanu taluka in the early hours of Wednesday. The big cat had attacked a calf in the village on November 10.

On Tuesday night, the department received information that one more calf had been attacked by the leopard and so without wasting any time, department officials set up a trap cage and the calf was kept inside to lure the leopard.