---
title: "Leopard Caught in India’s Largest Car Factory After 36-Hour Chase"
description: "There's a Tata-Jaguar joke in there somewhere."
date: "2017-10-06"
modified: "2017-10-06"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/14948/leopard-caught-in-indias-largest-car-factory-after-36-hour-chase"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "animals"
  - "Factory"
  - "India"
  - "suzuki"
---

# Leopard Caught in India’s Largest Car Factory After 36-Hour Chase

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A wayward leopard has been caught after spending over a day and a half hiding from wildlife officers amidst the maze-like complex of India's largest car factory, [according to the *BBC.*](<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41522611>)

The Maruti Suzuki manufacturing facility outside New Delhi pumps out over a million cars a year, so it's no small thing that officials were forced to shut it down when security officers spotted the leopard wandering inside on a security monitor on Thursday.

Police and wildlife officers reportedly evacuated the workers inside the plant and attempted to use live goats to lure it out of hiding. A few also tried using fireworks to scare the animal. Eventually, the big cat was spotted wandering through the plant's sprawling six-acre engine shop, and wildlife officers were able to move in a tag the leopard with a tranquilizer gun.

"The animal has been removed from the factory and after medical examination will be released in the wild," [a local police official told *AFP.*](<https://sg.news.yahoo.com/leopard-caught-36-hours-prowl-india-factory-001058267.html>) "No one was injured in the operation and area has been declared safe."

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According to the BBC, there are between 12-14,000 leopards in India, and conflicts with humans are not unheard of, especially as deforestation continues to wreak havoc on their natural habitats.

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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