While Friday’s attack on a 14-year-old boy in Aarey proves that the animal responsible for it is not the one that has been trapped, activists want to know if the leopard in the cage will be released back into the wild.

On Friday night, Darshan Kumar was answering nature’s call when he was attacked by a leopard. Speaking to mid-day, Satish, his father, said, “My son showed courage and started shouting, after which people rushed to the spot, and the leopard ran away.”