Bharatpur, Nov. 6 -- A forest team from Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, deployed to track the movements of cheetah KGP-3 after it strayed into Rajasthan's Karauli district, was allegedly assaulted by a group of villagers following the animal's killing of a buffalo calf, police said on Friday.

A forester sustained injuries and sought police protection for the team, which is monitoring the cheetah in the Mandrayal area.

Alok Prajapati (34), a forester with Kuno National Park, lodged a complaint on Tuesday against five to six unidentified villagers for allegedly assaulting members of the forest team.

In his complaint, Prajapati said that the cheetah's movement had been traced to the area under Chandelipura gram panchayat of Mandrayal...