According to preliminary reports, the group noticed a leopard perched on a roadside retaining wall. As the devotees scattered in different directions, Praveen went missing.
Murthy and his fellow farmer Siddaramaegowda had gone to harvest tomatoes at Bennegere village. While they were heading home for lunch, the tiger attacked them.
The stray dog, suspected to be rabid, was captured immediately by the city corporation staff, and shifted to the civic body’s animal birth control centre in Kannamapet.
