BAHRAICH, Nov. 29 -- A man remained trapped nearly for two hours inside a cage placed by the forest department to capture a leopard in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, officials said on Friday. The incident occurred on Thursday night in Umri Dehalo village, where an elderly woman was killed in a leopard attack two days earlier, in Fakhrpur police station area when a local Pradeep, 45, entered the trap allegedly in an intoxicated state to steal the goat tied inside as bait for the big cat.

As soon as he stepped inside, the automatic door shut, leaving him locked there with the goat. When he could not free himself, he shouted for help and contacted villagers using his mobile phone. Subsequently, other villagers rushed to the spot. Beside...