Only weeks after two MBBS students flung a stray dog from the rooftop of a building in Chennai, yet another chilling incident (only of an even bigger magnitude) has surfaced, this time in Hyderabad, where three puppies were allegedly burnt alive by a group of youngsters, one of whom recorded the gruesome act, police said on Wednesday.
The dastardly attack on dogs took place at a graveyard in Musheerabad area here on the afternoon of July 16 and came to light only on Tuesday, when a video of the incident went viral on social media.
A group of youngsters caught three stray puppies and tied them together. They then dragged the hapless animals to some distance and put them into a fire made out of jute bags and dry sticks, Shreya Paropkari, an animal rights activist, said in a complaint filed with Musheerabad Police on Tuesday.
“One of the perpetrators recorded the entire incident and is heard instructing and instigating others to set them on fire. The recordings were recovered from a fish stall owner in Musheerabad,” she said in the complaint.
Following the complaint, a case was filed under Section 429 (mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc,) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant Sections of Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, said Sub-Inspector B Bhaskar Rao, adding that efforts are on to nab those involved in the incident.
“We got a report on the incident yesterday (Tuesday) after which I filed a police complaint,” said Shreya, who works as Cruelty Response Manager with the Humane Society International.
Earlier, Shreya and Vasanthi Vadi, an activist with the NGO, People for Animals, met Hyderabad Police Commissioner M Mahender Reddy and submitted the video clip of the incident.