Usually online food delivery executives deliver food to homes or offices. But a Pune couple, to their horror, found that one such delivery man walked off with their beagle dog. On Twitter, Vandana Shah posted about the bizarre incident, which she said, happened on Monday around noon when she found that her dog Dottu went missing from Karve Road.

According to CCTV footage, Dottu was last seen playing and roaming inside the premises of her home cum-factory complex premises before he went missing. After he remained untraceable for many hours, Vandana and her husband started searching for their pet in their neighbourhood but failed to trace him.

They also approached the police, who assured them about looking into the matter. Meanwhile, Vandana said that on enquiring from a few food delivery guys at an eatery near their home, one of them recognised the dog and said it was taken away by his colleague.

Vandana also got hold of a picture of her dog with a man, who turned out to be food delivery personnel of Zomato, who was identified as Tushar.

@ZomatoIN @zomatocare@Rashmibansal #doglovers help @PETA #missingdog kidnapped by Zomato delivery guy Tushar Mobile number 08669582131on 7thOct from Poona at Karve Road,Deccan. pic.twitter.com/qLHnzEpwyT Vandana Shah (@Vandy4PM) October 8, 2019

"We took his contact number and asked him about Dottu. Tushar confessed to having picked him up but when we asked him to return the dog, he started making up excuses and said that he had sent him to his village," she said.

"We also offered him money in exchange for our beagle but he kept on giving us evasive answers and for the last few hours, he has switched off his cell phone," she added.

Vandana reached out to Zomato seeking their help stating that her dog was kidnapped by Tushar on October 7 Karve Road, Deccan. "That's totally not acceptable. Please help us with your contact details or the order details via DM and someone from our team will reach out to you at the earliest," Zomato responded on the micro-blogging site.

Hi Vandana! That's totally not acceptable. Please help us with your contact details or the order details via DM and someone from our team will reach out to you at the earliest. https://t.co/jcTFuHa5Ue Zomato Care (@zomatocare) October 8, 2019

The internet, meanwhile, is deeply upset and posted angry responses:

Very unfortunate to lose our loved dog in this unfortunate way . Hope you get the strength and courage to overcome this tough phase . Vimal Ram (@Iyerramvimal) October 8, 2019

such a cute kid



How could somebody do this Sridhar (@sridhar__TN) October 8, 2019

This is outrageous. Pune police have to file a complaint. Mam, you being a lawyer.. find a way out. I have a four month old pup...and I can imagine how you must feel. Shwetabh (@VarmaShwetabh) October 9, 2019

Thats just awful... Nishitosh Thakur (@NishitoshThakur) October 8, 2019

This is insane Manish (@crypto_manish) October 9, 2019

Zomato is sending thievs for food delivery or what ..this is really ridiculous Pradeep Yadav (@Deepcorner) October 9, 2019

Vandana and her husband also claimed that while they were assured of help by police yesterday, the police refused to register a complaint.

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