Hyderabad City Police on Thursday arrested eight minors in connection with the horrifying incident of setting three puppies ablaze.
The incident in which some urchins burnt the puppies alive in a hay stack on Wednesday, police rounded up eight people in the age group of 10 to 17 and produced them in a juvenile court on Thursday. The incident came to light when the culprits not only committed the blood curdling act but shot it on a mobile camera and shared the video on social media.
On the basis of the video clips, an activist of People’s For Animals P Shreya had lodged an FIR with the Musheerabad Police station in the city.
Police inspector B Mohan Kumar said that police had registered a case under Section 429 of IPS and also the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act and rounded up eight boys from Pathan Basti in Musheerabad. Juvenile justice board has remanded all the eight boys to a juvenile home.
In her complaint, Shreya said that a group of minor boys tied three puppies with a rope and forcibly threw them in to a fire lit with the jute bags and sticks. The horrible video shows that when the screaming and hapless puppies tried to come out of the fire, the urchins pushed them back and held them with force using stick till they were burnt to death. The crime was committed at a deserted spot in a local graveyard. Police have identified the culprits with the help of the video and also recovered the original video footage form a local fish stall-owner.
Earlier, Shreya along with other activists met Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahinder Reddy and submitted a memorandum along with the video clip and demanded stringent action against the guilty. “They have committed the cruelty just for sadistic pleasure”, she said.
NG Jayasimham, managing director, Human Society International demanded a psychiatric evaluation of the boys involved in the incident.
“Violence towards animals by children can be indicator other abuse and potentially a predictor of serious anti social behavior in adulthood including criminal offenses and violence towards women a children”, Jayasimha said.
Even as the city was reeling under shock over the burning of the puppies another incident of shooting a dog to death in the city has also come to the light. In the second video a young man is scene shooting a dog to death in Nampally areas of Hyderabad.