The forest officials launched an operation to capture a leopard that attacked a devotee at the Someswara Swamy temple in Kuppam on Tuesday morning and escaped into the nearby forest.
According to information, the priest reached the temple at around 5 a.m. for the daily rituals. The priest saw the leopard scaling the compound wall when he was unlocking the temple doors. He raised an alarm, but the animal was gone.
The people nearby who reached the temple did not take him seriously, even as the priest kept repeating his version.
