do they train Indian foresters to mess up wildlife situations? It is difficult to ascribe the series of botch-ups involving leopards in the last month or so to misfortune. The most recent one was the highly publicised spectacle of a leopard killed by police and wildlife officials after it entered a factory in southern Delhi. On November 22, 2002, authorities in Mehsana, Gujarat, fired thirty rounds from an ak-47 rifle and 50 rounds from a .303 rifle to kill a weakened and dehydrated leopard that had strayed into a market.