(This story originally appeared in on Dec 27, 2016)

A team of four constables attached to the South division had to run to safety when a woman let loose a dog which tried to attack them.The incident occurred in the wee hours of December 21 (Wednesday) when the police team had gone to arrest a habitual offender named Vinod, alias ‘Kothi’ (Monkey), at the latter’s house in Kashi Nagar in Kumara Swamy Layout. It was about 3.15 am when the police team reached Vinod’s house. But his sister, refusing to allow the police to enter the house, unleashed her dog. After initially running for safety to avoid being bitten by the snarling and snapping canine, the cops finally managed to subdue the dog and put it on its leash again. The police have initiated action against the young woman.Vinod is allegedly involved in an attempt to murder registered under 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) recently.Senior officials attached to the South division instructed the night beat policemen and the Hoysala patrolling police to look for the accused and bring him in.Accordingly, the team of policemen waited till early morning, assuming that the accused would be fast asleep, and could be nabbed easily. “Along with us, a night duty police inspector, too, had come near Vinod’s house. All of us were in uniform. When we knocked at the door, a young woman who answered the door, questioned us for waking her up at such an odd hour. When we told her that we had come in search of Vinod, she said there was no person there by that name. When we asked her to allow us in to search the house, the woman unleashed the dog, which tried to attack us. We managed to catch hold of the dog and tied it back,” said an officer who had gone in search of the accused.The young woman also startled hurling abuses at the policemen. She allegedly also threw her mobile phone at them, but it harmlessly crashed into a wall and broke into pieces. She is then alleged to have threatened the policemen with dire consequences. As there was no lady police constable with the team, the cops returned to the station and filed a complaint against the troublemaker.She was booked for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means (IPC 324), assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty (IPC 353), intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (IPC 504), and criminal intimidation (IPC 506). “Action has been initiated against the woman.Even Vinod has been arrested. Luckily, the dog did not bite any of the policemen. For trying to protect her kin, even the woman landed in trouble. Vinod is involved in a few crimes registered in the South division,” the officer added. Further investigations are on.