In a fresh morning as Detective Raj Biswas flipped through the pages of the local newspaper, his eyes scanned the headlines with practiced precision. Amidst the blur of headlines and advertisements, one article caught his attention—a headline that spoke of tragedy and terror in equal measure. The article, prominently featured on the front page, detailed the unfortunate situation of Jalapuranagar village, a remote small village nestled on the edge of a jungle. According to the report, the calmness of this once-pleasant village had been shattered by the presence of a man-eating leopard, that waits for a chance to hunt people in the shadows, leaving a trail of fear and devastation.
He reads about a man-eating leopard, that was very frequently entering the nearby village named Jalapuranagar. It was a told by the forest department and the local police, that the female leopard seemed to have strayed out of the Jalapuranagar Wildlife Sanctuary. An officer of the state forest department said it had received information from local residents a couple of weeks back that a leopard had been spotted near the local tea garden the first time two months ago. Nearly twelve teams of forest and wildlife officials, and a team of Wildlife Institute of India experts had been searching for the leopard for two months. It was also written in the news article, that the leopard had killed 11 people in Jalapuranagar in the past two months. His latest prey was a local Barbar named Dulal Roy who was killed by the animal yesterday.
As Raj delved deeper into the article, the words leapt off the page, painting a vivid portrait of terror and despair. Accounts of savage attacks and narrow escapes filled the column inches, each paragraph dripping with palpable fear and uncertainty. Villagers spoke of sleepless nights spent huddled in fear, the haunting cries of the leopard echoing through the darkness like a harbinger of doom. The article spared no detail in its depiction of the chaos that gripped Jalapuranagar, recounting tales of lives slaughtered in the dead of night and villagers living in constant fear for their lives. Raj could almost feel the palpable sense of panic that spread through the village, a tangible presence that hung heavy in the air like a suffocating fog.
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The Leopard's Prey: A Raj Biswas Investigation
General FictionIt began like any other day, with Raj Biswas sipping his morning tea and perusing the newspaper. A headline caught his eye: "Man-Eating Leopard Terrorizes Jalapuranagar." The article detailed a series of attacks by a rogue leopard from the nearby Ja...
