This is the moment a leopard caused havoc by running around a city in northwestern India.<br /><br />The male leopard, which was successfully rescued by forest officials, was filmed just yards from residents in the built-up Kumbha Nagar area of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan on March 7. <br /><br />Panicked residents called local forest officials, who came and tried to catch it by tranquilising it.<br /><br />"It was a tough operation that lasted over three hours. Though we shot it with tranquilisers several times, it managed to keep running. But we managed to drop a net after cornering it," said a forest official who was part of the rescue operation. <br /><br />However, a police official deployed to manage the crowd disagreed. <br /><br />He said: "The local forest officials were poorly trained to handle the situation. They had to summon an expert shooter from Udaipur nearly 125km away. That delayed the operation."<br /><br />The leopard was finally caught and shifted to Bassi Wildlife sanctuary. <br /><br />Officials said the animal would be given a medical checkup and then released in a nearby forest.
