A wild leopard manages to enter a house and hides under the courtyard cooler.

The owner, Abha, immediately raises the alarm by letting his neighbors and the police know. People gather outside the house to witness the scene.

The rescue operation begins with the Forestry officers setting up a big net to trap the large animal. At first, this method seems to work.

Footage filmed on March 4 in Meerut, India's Uttar Pradesh, shows the leopard desperately wiggling around and scratching the net to escape. After 10 minutes, the leopard breaks the net and runs away, spreading panic in the village.

It finally hides under a bush, where it remains for many hours before being safely tranquilised and rescued by the officers.

The leopard will be released into the Shivalik forest.

A wild leopard created a panic in Meerut’s Pallavapuram area and around for 9 hours before finally being tranquilized and rescued . On 4th March ( Friday ) morning when a leopard entered the house in Pallavapuram Phase II colony around 7:50 am in morning , hinding under the cooler in the courtyard of house , tells abha owner of the house . We raised the alarm and all the people gathered outside the house . The police who reached there called the team of the forest department. The forest department laid siege to the entire house and set a trap to catch the leopard The leopard got trapped in the net for ten minutes and then broke the net and came on the road , creating more panic . The leopard after breaking the net hides in the bushes in a plot of Anita Chaudhary
Police and forest department teams than put up nets all around the plot and monitored every moment of the leopard for several hours. After some time the leopard was tranquilized. After that the leopard was rescued and forest department took into their custody . The leopard will be left into the shivalik forest in Saharanpur

A wild leopard created a panic in Meerut’s Pallavapuram area and around for 9 hours before finally being tranquilized and rescued . On 4th March ( Friday ) morning when a leopard entered the house in Pallavapuram Phase II colony around 7:50 am in morning , hinding under the cooler in the courtyard of house , tells abha owner of the house . We raised the alarm and all the people gathered outside the house . The police who reached there called the team of the forest department. The forest department laid siege to the entire house and set a trap to catch the leopard The leopard got trapped in the net for ten minutes and then broke the net and came on the road , creating more panic . The leopard after breaking the net hides in the bushes in a plot of Anita Chaudhary
Police and forest department teams than put up nets all around the plot and monitored every moment of the leopard for several hours. After some time the leopard was tranquilized. After that the leopard was rescued and forest department took into their custody . The leopard will be left into the shivalik forest in Saharanpur