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Remember the canine worth `8 cr that went missing? After the matter was sorted out, cops thought the rich breeder could be a donor for themThis is probably not how celebritybreeder Sathish thought his complaint with the police over a lost dog would be closed. But like the story of the two cats who were fighting over a piece of meat and the adjudicating monkey walked off with the large chunk of meat, in this story too, it’s a win-win for the police. The police allegedly told Sathish not to pay one lakh to the man who found his dog, and dismissed the case. But they allegedly told Sathish that he could paint the Hanumanthanagara police station instead. The cost of the paint job: Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh.On Sunday (December 22), when news of Sathish’s missing dog, an 8-crore-worthspread like wild fire, ancalled up to say that he had found the dog and asked for his reward of Rs 1 lakh which Sathish had promised.Uday Kumar, the auto-driver from Kanakanapalya, called up Sathish to say that he was taking care of dog similar to the one that Sathish was looking for. “My friend Chetan from LIC Colony called me to say that the police would come in search of me as I was in the possession of someone else’s dog,” Kumar told Mirror. “I wasn’t scared since I had found the dog abandoned near a Metro station in Nagasandra on Tumakuru Road in September. “I had gone to drop off a passenger to Nagasandra when I saw this dog surrounded by a few strays, who were attacking it. I chased away the strays and rescued the strange looking dog and started feeding it biscuits. The dog seemed friendly and I took her to my friend Chetan’s house in LIC colony as I could not take care of the dog at my house,” Kumar told Mirror.After Chetan’s warning, Kumar brought the dog in his auto-rickshaw to Sathish’s house in Banashankari on Sunday evening and called him but he was not at home.Sathish asked Kumar to leave the dog with his mother and asked him to call the next morning so that he could give Kumar the conveyance money and the reward amount, said the police.When Kumar called Sathish again to remind him of his pending reward, Sathish allegedly told him that he would be happy to give away the reward to the person who persuaded Kumar to return the dog, hinting that Kumar could have stolen the dog. Sathish then told Kumar that it was impossible for the Alaskan Malamute to walk 18 kilometres from Srinagara to Nagasandra as the dog would collapse if it walked even one kilometre. “Samsung had lost a lot of weight and she was infested with many ticks,” Sathish told Mirror. Sathish also questioned Kumar about why he had kept the dog at his friend’s house and not at his house, alleging that he was lying to him.Sathish alleged that Kumar was a former small-time dog breeder. “He was aware that the dog belonged to me as I am sure other dog breeders would have alerted him that it was my dog,” Sathish said adding, “when the news of the missing dog started appearing in the media, Kumar would have thought it was better to get the reward money instead of trying to sell the dog to someone and get caught.”“I was ready to give Kumar Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 for taking care of my dog. But he came on Monday afternoon to my house with a rowdy friend of his, and created a ruckus. I want not at home. My mother was alone and he demanded the Rs 1 lakh reward from her. It was then that I decided that he did not deserve it,” said Sathish.The matter reached the Hanumanthanagara police station where both the parties were summoned separately by the Station House Officer (SHO), C V Ravi.Sathish maintained that Kumar didn’t deserve the reward because, despite knowing the owner, he didn’t return the dog earlier. However, Kumar told the police that he had been taking care of the dog for more than two months and had no idea who Sathish was, nor had he seen him before.Hanumanthanagara police inspector C V Ravi gave both the parties a fair hearing and told Kumar to forget his reward and go home. “I was told by the police officer not to call or disturb Sathish or to demand any reward money,” Kumar told Mirror.But what the SHO told Sathish, came like a bolt from the blue, says the dog breeder.Sathish said that the SHO casually told him that could get the police station painted, since it had not been painted for a decade now. “The officer even said that I could call the painter right away. When I asked a painter to give me an estimate of how much it would cost to paint the police station, I was given an estimate of Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh,” said Sathish.Police stations in Bengaluru have been renovated and given make-overs by sponsors and donors. The Hanumanthanagara police were probably hoping their station could get a fresh lick of paint since they sorted the dog theft case with no money exchanging hands.An officer from the police station confirmed that they had asked Sathish to sponsor painting the station but said that they had asked him as an act of goodwill.