miscreants

Puttenahalli

activist

.

Animal Husbandry Department

East Bengaluru

At least nine dogs were allegedly poisoned byon Sunday night at Ramaiah City inpolice limits. Among the nine, five dogs have died and four are under treatment at a private veterinary clinic.“I have lodged a complaint with the Puttenahalli police over the death of the dogs. We suspect that some miscreants poisoned the dogs. We are awaiting the autopsy report,’’ said BBMP Joint Director (Animal Husbandry) Dr S Sashikumar.Deploring the inhuman act of Sunday night, Priya Chetty Rajagopal, an animal, demanded that the authorities find out who is guilty and punish those involved for the crime.“This is a case of utmost cruelty and despicable criminality and as citizens we demand that the police take the stringent action not only to punish the perpetrators but to ensure that is a strong deterrent to any criminal who wants to get away with this type of criminal action in future,’’ said Rajagopal.Expressing similar opinion, Manjari Colaco, an animal activist, also demanded that police take stringent action against the culprits.Harini Raghavan, an animal activist, opined that thieves could be behind this horrifying act as they wanted to make their job easy.“It is unconstitutional. A few people took the law into their hands. The police must punish those did this. And the punishment should be such that no one would dare to commit a similar crime in the future,’’ said Raghavan.Meanwhile, the Puttenahalli Police Inspector said that an FIR has been registered and an investigation is on.“We suspect some miscreants killed the dogs by poisoning them. Everything will be clear after the investigation,’’ said the police inspector.BBMP Special Commissioner D Ranadeep told BM that the Joint Director ofhas already lodged a complaint with the police.This big-scale dog deaths in the city has come after more than 12 dogs being poisoned by a few miscreants at BTM 2nd Stage in October 2018.And more recently, residents of Indiranagar had come across dog corpses near the BDA shopping complex.“We came across around 30 dog corpses dumped at BDA Shopping Complex in three months. For all these months, we have been demanding that the BBMP officials to find out why the dog carcasses are being dumped here. It is only now that the BBMP sent one carcass for autopsy and came to know that dog had died due to a lung problem,” said a resident. What is horrifying is that all these months, the dog carcasses were being sent to a landfill along with mixed waste as there is no crematorium for animals in