Nainita, daughter of Surendra Singh from Rangad village, was picked by the feline in front of her family members. She was carried for 25-20 metres from her house and abandoned with serious bite wounds on her hands, chin and neck when villagers intervened, shouting and pelting the animal with stones. Nainita was taken to Doon District Hospital in the State Capital for treatment.

Anti-Poaching Cell director Paramjit Singh said a game hunter has been hired to shoot the big cat which has killed three villagers and injured as many in the past one-and-a-half months. Even though its man-eater status will be withdrawn if it is not shot down in the next 10-15 days, a senior forest officer informed that that the leopard in question may be declared "man-eater" again if the office of State chief wildlife warden thinks fit.

In another incident it was confirmed that the leopard found dead at Vigradi area of Upper Yamuna Forest Division died out of injury to its neck. Forest officials believe that female leopard was injured following an attack by a poacher. A search to arrest him is on. According to the source, the dead female leopard was brought to Barkot with the help of villagers on Saturday and a postmortem was ordered by the DFO Upper Yamuna Forest Division.

In a third incident, Ramnagar Forest Division officials arrested a man on Saturday for killing a cheetal (spotted deer) at Kaladungi. Poacher identified as Jeevan Singh killed the deer with the help of two dogs. Singh was spotted by three bird watchers who were passing through the area, Ravinder Kumar, Divisional Forest Officer of Ramnagar, said.

He was identified and arrested by the forest officials on Saturday morning. However he was let off after paying Rs 55,000 as compensation to the forest department.