Placed in FACEBOOK by Nimal Jayasinha, 30 October 2025
On October 4, 2025, in Pench, India, a surreal moment was captured on CCTV. Raju Patel, a 52-year-old labourer, patted a tiger he mistook for a “big cat” after a late-night card game. Tipsy from homemade liquor, Raju stumbled onto a street where a sub-adult Bengal tiger, displaced by monsoon floods, had wandered from the nearby Pench Tiger Reserve. Unfazed, Raju gently touched its head. For 5-10 minutes, they stood together. He even offered it a swig from his bottle, which it ignored. Forest officials later arrived with spotlights and mild tranquilizers and guided the exhausted tiger back to the woods. No one was harmed, and Raju became a local legend, shrugging, “It was just a pussy cat.” As new information emerges, Raju is now under heavy police protection and has blocked his Social Media account. He was apparently being hounded by the entire local married male population who were demanding access to the recipe for the homemade liquor. 
NB = As i could not reproduce the video shots of this drunken amiability provied by NIMAL .let readers face the real fellas ….. vicariously
