A leopard attacked a four-year-old boy inside Aarey Milk Colony and dragged the child for about 30 feet in front of  his family. The big cat backed off after the boy’s gutsy uncle kept screaming and ran after it. While the child has sustained injuries to the head and neck, locals said there has been a spate of leopard attacks inside Aarey in the past month.

Around 8 pm on September 26, the boy was playing outside his home at Unit-3 when a leopard pounced on him. His uncle Vinod Kumar Yadav told mid-day, “I was standing at the door as my nephew Ayush was playing outside. Suddenly a leopard came towards Ayush and within seconds grabbed him by his head and started running towards the bushes. I started shouting and ran behind the big cat.”