Two stray dogs thrashed to death in Porbandar town

Rajkot: After two motorcycle borne assailants shot dead a dog in Dhoraji of Rajkot district on Wednesday afternoon, two persons allegedly beat two dogs to death with bats and iron pipes in Porbandar on the same day evening. The accused were arrested on Thursday.
Police said the accused, Murtuza Sanghar and Firoz Sherwani, allegedly committed the crime in Memanvad locality of Porbandar.
“We have booked the accused under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and sections 429 and 114 of Indian Penal Code, dealing with the mischief by killing or maiming animals and being party to the crime,” said J L Majethia, the head constable with Kirti Mandir police station.
The accused have been booked on the complaint of Amana Qureshi (61). “After hearing the commotion, when I came out of my house, I saw that armed with bats and iron pipes, Sanghar and Sherwani were chasing three dogs. The duo had clamped their feet on the mouths of the dogs and had starting beating them up. After the dogs were rendered unconscious, the duo tied them up with ropes and dumped them in a garbage heap,” said Qureshi in her FIR.
“While the two dogs succumbed to their injuries, one dog survived which we took to our centre, where we treated it for its injuries,” said Jiva Ratadia, a member of Group for Birds and Animals, an NGO.
During their interrogation, the accused said as the dogs used to attack their goats, they had decided to kill them. Of the accused, Sanghar is the son of Haji Ibrahim Sanghar, the president of Porbandar BJP minority cell.
Cases of cruelty against animals, especially dogs, have suddenly spiked in Saurashtra and Kutch.
The police are yet to nab the two persons who while riding a motorcycle shot a dog to death from a 12 bore double barrel gun near BRC Bhavan in Dhoraji of Rajkot district on Wednesday afternoon.
The Dhoraji police claim they have got the CCTV footage of the crime, in which the man who had fired is clearly visible. On June 29, Rahul Chawda was arrested for allegedly beating to death a puppy with a stick in Jhundala locality of Porbandar. During his interrogation, Chawda said that he got worked up by the constant howling made by the puppy and hence, he had decided to kill it.
On June 26, a person from Nagaland who worked as a waiter at a resort in Adipur town of Kutch district had strangulated the puppy he had raised as his pet. After his arrest, the accused, Khumkili Sangatam, told the police that he was angry with the puppy as it had soiled his room.