Photos supplied to me by one of the hunting party. The Nawab Shafat Ali Khan with the second man-eating leopard shot by him. The report is this leopard was found in the same village where he had killed two women and injured one man. He was shot in the head with the .458 Win Mag rifle.

In India there is always controversy when a big cat is killed as a maneater. Many people believe as leopards and tigers are endangered they should not be killed. Either let be and presumably left free to kill humans at will. One Indian detractor told me, that thousands of Indians are killed on the roads each day, as if that is a answer ... Others suggest the leopards and tigers be captured and re-located. If capturing wild cats was easy and could be quickly done, I am sure that would be done. But easy to suggest after watching National Geographic on TV, harder to do in real life in a jungle. And indeed if approaching a maneater in a jungle with a hypodermic dart gun, that man would indeed have big ones, while he was still alive ... Sitting in a machan, that could work, but how many deaths might result while attempting these methods. Some claim it is not possible to identify the maneater. Hunters know animals can sometimes be identified. And in the end, the proof is if the killings stop.

Our fellow hunters in India have a hard time I feel. In a country of hundreds of millions of vegetarians ... well you can imagine how hunting is viewed. Historically too hunting was an activity for the rich and also foreignors. In the semi-socialist modern democracy, such an activity is usually forbidden. Personally I salute the guys that are hunting there, and hunting man-eaters is an honorable cause IMO.

This second photo is what it is really about. The Nawab is pictured with the husband of one of the women killed by the maneater.