A 33-year-old physician in Bengaluru has been booked by the police for allegedly throwing a stray canine from his second-floor condominium on April 20. The canine named Scooby, which was being taken care of by residents of Brindavan Flats in Lakkasandra in southeast Bengaluru, didn’t survive the autumn.
Dr Sagar Ballal, a neurosurgeon, was booked after Ayush Bannerjee, 22, a pupil, filed a grievance in opposition to him on April 22. The Adugodi police booked Dr Ballal for allegedly inflicting mischief by killing or maiming an animal below Part 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which entails an imprisonment of 5 years and a fantastic.
In response to the police grievance, the April 20 incident, the place Scooby was thrown down, was the second time the canine had been discovered to have been thrown from one of many higher flooring within the final three months.
On February 5, the residents have been woken up by the cries of the canine at round 2.30 am and the canine was discovered to be mendacity on the bottom ground with a number of accidents in what was suspected to have been a fall from one of many higher flooring.
On the time, the grievance states, the residents took Scooby to a veterinarian hospital in south Bengaluru for remedy. The canine was handled for a damaged backbone and different accidents and later returned to the advanced on April 16 after being discharged.
“The incident was not pursued since nobody noticed Scooby being thrown,” says the police grievance.
4 days after Scooby returned to the condominium advanced, the residents have been woken once more by a loud noise at round 2.30 am, the grievance says. After they rushed out, they noticed that Scooby had fallen on a automobile parked on the bottom ground, breaking its windshield and touchdown on the bonnet. “The canine suffered severe accidents on its head and was rushed to the hospital,” says the FIR.
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On the similar time, the residents allegedly noticed Dr Ballal enter his condominium and lock the door. Efforts by the residents to name the physician allegedly didn’t yield outcomes as he switched off his home lights and remained unresponsive. The subsequent morning, when the residents confronted the physician as he was leaving for work, he denied his function within the incident, the police grievance states.
A background examine of the physician by residents has allegedly revealed that he was concerned in an identical incident of killing a canine in Indore in Madhya Pradesh in 2022 whereas he was pursuing his PG programme in surgical procedure, in response to the police grievance.
In response to courtroom and police data from Madhya Pradesh, Dr Ballal was named in an FIR registered on the Palasia police station in Indore, the place he was accused by NGO Folks for Animals of being concerned within the demise of a stray canine on August 7, 2022.
Dr Ballal was accused on the premise of CCTV footage that confirmed him grabbing a canine by its neck. The Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom, nonetheless, quashed the FIR in opposition to him on April 26, 2024, on the grounds that the FIR was filed solely on the premise of apprehension and “not on the premise of any concrete proof”.
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