Timely intervention by a BEST driver on Friday night helped save the life of a woman injured in a human-leopard conflict incident at Aarey Milk Colony. The incident took place at around 7 pm,  when Sarita Gurav, 38, was walking on the road, near a forest patch.

A BEST bus driver, Dipesh Sunil Awade, was ferrying passengers along the same stretch, at around that time, when he spotted the leopard attacking the woman.  Speaking with mid-day, Awade said, “While I was driving towards Adarsh Nagar, I reached a sharp turn and was shocked to see a leopard attacking a woman. She was lying a few metres away from my bus and the leopard was right next to her. I started honking and everyone in the bus also began screaming. The leopard immediately fled into the bushes.”