When a 39-year-old goat grazer from Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district was attacked by a female leopard while grazing goats in the village, he killed it with a sickle. 'I wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't whacked it with the sickle to defend myself,' said Naresh Singh Saun of Naini-Saini village.

'The leopard emerged from the bushes and pounced on one of the goats. I tried to drive it away by making noise. But the leopard left the goat and suddenly jumped towards me. I was initially petrified. But then I realized that if I didn't act, I would be dead,' said Saun. Saun said he hit it with the sickle he was carrying and it worked. 'The injured leopard fled but fell unconscious some distance away. The head wound from the sickle led to its death,' he said. Saun said this was the first time that he came across a leopard while grazing goats since his childhood.

'People claim that leopards run away if an alarm is raised, but in my case, instead of running away, it attacked me. In such a situation, I had no other option but to hit it back.' He said forest officials were later informed and they arrived at the spot immediately. 'We took the body of the leopard into our possession. It was a female leopard and we cremated it after post-mortem,' said Dinesh Joshi, ranger Pithoragarh range of forest. The forest department was told that Saun killed the leopard in self-defence.

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