India, April 4 -- In a rare and tense wildlife encounter on the southern fringes of Bengaluru, a courageous couple in Jigani successfully helped forest officials trap and rescue a leopard that had strayed into their home early Thursday morning.

According to a report in The Times of India, the incident occurred in Kuntlu Reddy Layout, a densely populated area with no significant green cover within a 2km radius. Around 7 am, Venkatesh, who was recovering from a leg injury, and his wife Venkatalakshmi were enjoying their morning coffee and watching television when the unthinkable happened - a leopard silently entered their ground-floor home in a three-storey building.

The big cat, unnoticed at first, walked past the couple and slipped into...