It is disturbing news when a person accuses a colleague of eating her pet dog. Something even more disturbing is when the police call it a trivial matter.

It is indeed disturbing news when a person accuses a colleague of eating her pet dog. Something even more disturbing and shocking, however, is when the police, on receiving a complaint in connection with the incident, says it's a trivial matter.

It was a traumatic experience for 30-year-old Nirmala D'Souza from Mumbai when she found out that her dog was missing and suspected that her colleague ate her pet.

According to this DNA report, D'Souza had given her 10-month-old pet dog to a colleague because her father had developed an allergy due to the dog and she wanted Sheetal Kushwah, the colleague, to take care of the dog for a while before she found a solution to the problem.

However, after a while, when she went to her colleague's home to get her pet back, she found out that her dog was missing and suspected that her colleague had actually eaten her dog.

When D'Souza went to the police, they refused to register a complaint and instead said, "Sirf kutta toh mara hai (It's just a dog which has died), why create fuss about it?"

It is sad and scary to see the police react in such a way to the complaint of a traumatised person who just lost a pet, which — as other pet owners will know — becomes like a family member to the pet owner.