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Till then, the big cat was hiding inside the area cordoned off by nets amid several hume pipes lying abandoned. The leopard then entered a house where the SHO fired at it and locked it in the kitchen. I was walking unaware,” said Munna, who sustained injuries on his leg.Locals kept chasing the big cat armed with lathis and firearms. The stray leopard in Aurangabad Khalsa vilage came out of its hideout in an open ground at 5.15am on Saturday. When we asked the forest department, they denied that the leopard had escaped,” he said.The leopard, said locals, could not be located till 7am..