HYDERABAD, India—Panic gripped Hetero Group’s pharmaceutical manufacturing plant here after a leopard was spotted inside the building in the early morning hours of Dec. 18.
Hetero Group staff contacted officials with the local forestry department at dawn and forwarded a video of the leopard on the prowl inside the plant, according to district forest officer Sridhar Rao. Soon, forestry officials and two veterinarians from Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad reached the plant to capture the animal, a four-year-old male leopard.