New Tehri, Jul 19 (PTI) A 17-year-old boy has been mauled by a leopard in Uttarakhand's Tehri district, officials said on Friday. <br> The incident took place in Devprayag on Thursday night when Anurag, a class 12 student, was returning home after playing cricket and was attacked by the leopard, Kirtinagar Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sonia Pant said. <br> Despite some local people raising an alarm, the leopard did not leave the boy, the officials said.<br> According to the officials, police and forest department personnel reached the spot after receiving the information of the incident. <br> The victim's mutilated body was recovered late Thursday night, Pant said.<br> BJP MLA from Devprayag Vinod Kandari, who reached the spot on Friday, directed the forest department to capture the leopard immediately. <br> By 6 am, a team of the forest department successfully trapped the leopard in a cage, the officials said. <br> However, the angry locals created a ruckus, demanding that the leopard be shot on the spot, they said. <br> The forest department officials told them that the captured leopard would be taken only to the office in the tehsil, to which they agreed.<br> Upon reaching the tehsil, when the local people discovered that the leopard was being transported to Dehradun via Hindolakhal, they threw out the employees of the ranger office and staged a sit-in, locking the place, the officials said. <br> Divisional Forest Officer Jeevan Dagade calmed the people down and appealed to them to not let their children go out of homes alone in the evening.