PUNE: Carcasses of 12 stray dogs, suspected to have been poisoned to death, were found in Pimple Gurav between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
With this, the number of stray dogs poisoned to death in the area has gone up to 19 since Sunday.
Police said two unidentified men have been captured on CCTV footage collected from Shivneri Colony and Srushti Chowk in Pimple Gurav. No one has been arrested so far in the case.
“We suspect the 12 dogs were poisoned in the early hours of Sunday. Seven carcasses were found on Tuesday morning in the Srushti Chowk area,” said Ganesh Mane, sub-inspector of the Sangvi police.
The Sangvi police on Monday registered an offence against unknown persons for killing stray dogs. The police also found that one of the dogs was stuffed in a gunny bag and burned. Vinod Murar of Pimple Gurav, whose pet dog was also poisoned to death, had lodged an FIR.
Kunal Kamat, member of a dog feeders group in Pimple Gurav. told TOI, “Nineteen stray dogs have been killed so far. On Tuesday, we found seven dead dogs. The carcasses had started decomposing by then.”
He said, “It was not possible to conduct autopsy of each dog. Viscera of one of the dogs has been preserved to find the exact cause of the deaths.”