India, Feb. 14 -- LUCKNOW A wedding on Buddheshwar road in Lucknow's Para area had an uninvited guest on Wednesday night. An 8-year-old leopard, which strayed into the marriage lawn around 9pm, left guests in panic, the bride and groom stranded in a car for hours and a forest official injured. The big cat was caught and tranquillised after five hours of efforts around 2.45am and later released into the wild. But the incident left a trail of questions like - where did the animal come from and why it entered this place.

"There's a strong possibility that it (leopard) strayed from some nearby district's buffer zone. This is because the city is expanding with human habitat encroaching the surrounding forests," said Sitanshu Pandey, divisiona...