cat fight

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She, her friend assaulted ownerThe woman wanted to adopt a cat but she and her friend allegedly got into awith the owner and assaulted him; both are now in custody.The woman, Priyanka (a) and her boyfriend allegedly assaulted the kitten’s owner Basavaraj Manikappa Pujari (31), who hails from Kalaburagi. Pujari who is preparing for his, resides in Koramangala.Pujari had put up a post on Facebook on October 26 saying his five-month-old kitten was up for adoption. Priyanka, a techie who hails from Kolkata, had responded to the post and agreed to adopt the kitten.Pujari had told Priyanka that the kitten had not been spayed and told her to get it done. According to Pujari’s statement, a few days after adopting the kitten, Priyanka came back to Pujari and left the kitten with him. She said that she was going on a holiday and since there was no one to take care of the kitten, she was leaving it in Pujari’s care.While the kitten was staying with him, Pujari came to know that the kitten had not been spayed.Pujari took the kitten to a vet in Indiranagar and got her spayed. He then left her with a friend and asked him to take care of her. On December 18, Priyanka met Pujari and told him that she wanted to take her kitten back. Pujari told her that he could not give the kitten to her as she was recovering after a surgery. Angry over this, an argument broke out between Pujari and Priyanka.A friend who had accompanied Priyanka intervened in the fight. Both Priyanka and his friend assaulted Pujari and he suffered injuries on his head, according to the complaint. They then went to Pujari’s friend’s house where he had left the kitten and caused some damage to his property too. Pujari then filed a complaint against Priyanka and her friend at the police station.Speaking toMirror, the victim Basavaraj Manikappa Pujari said, “I have been taking care of the kitten since it’s birth. When I posted an adoption appeal on social media, the accused came to take the kitten and assured me that she would take good care of it. But soon she brought it back saying that she was going on a holiday and there was no one to take care of it. On the day of incident, I had left the kitten at my friend’s house. She had offered to care for it after the surgery. I don’t know how Priyanka and her friend got to know that the kitten was with her. They landed up at her house and vandalised it. She immediately called me and I rushed there. On seeing me, Priyanka and her friend started abusing me and tried to take back the kitten forcefully. Both Priyanka and her friend assaulted me and I suffered injuries on my head,” he added.One of the officials from the Koramangala police station told Bangalore Mirror, “The accused are in custody and they will be produced in front of the court. Further investigations are going on.”An FIR has been registered at the Koramangala police station under the sections 448 (Punishment for house trespass) , 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (Criminal intimidation), 427 (Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees).