Updated On: 15 July, 2023 12:51 PM IST | Palghar | mid-day online correspondent
Frequent sighting of a leopard has triggered panic at a village in Maharashtra`s Palghar district with the local authorities asking the residents, especially children and elderly people, not to step out of houses after sunset, officials said on Saturday.

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Frequent sighting of a leopard has triggered panic at a village in Maharashtra`s Palghar district with the local authorities asking the residents, especially children and elderly people, not to step out of houses after sunset, PTI reported on Saturday.
A Zilla Parishad-run school at Bavda village in Dahanu taluka, where the big cat was seen in the past few days, was also shut as a precautionary measure to avoid any untoward incident, the report said.