A village in central India was briefly gripped by terror when a wild leopard snuck into the home of a local farmer, and was eventually rescued after a 12 hour panic today (May 7).

In Durgapur village, 12 kilometres from Tikamgarh district, Madhya Pradesh, a leopard entered the home of Ramesh Pal, a local farmer around 7:00 am local time.

The leopard is believed to have come from the nearby forest area to the village, and climbed to the second floor of Pal's house up a ladder and entered a room there.

Fortunately the house owner was able to lock the leopard inside and informed the forest department, who promptly dispatched a rescue team there who cordoned off the area.

As soon as the news spread, people gathered outside of Pal's house to see the rescue operation. For several hours leopard was seen sitting silently in its room but by the evening, around 7:00 pm, the forest team was successful to trap him inside cage.

According to officials leopard will be relocated to a different forest area. There were no reported injuries during this rescue.

In Durgapur village, which is 12 kilometers from Tikamgarh district a leopard entered Ramesh Pal house on Tuesday (7th May) around 7 am in morning, Ramesh he is a farmer ,leopard came from forest area to village and climbed two second floor of house through ladder and entered a room there ,due to the house owner smartness leopard was not able to get outside of house as he locked the gate from outside.After that he informed forest department, soon rescue team reached there and cordoned the area. As soon as the news spread people gathered outside of house to see the rescue operation. For several hours leopard was seen sitting silently in room but by evening around 7 pm forest team was successful to trap him inside cage. According to official leopard will be left to forest area. No one get injured in this rescue