Atrocities against stray dogs continued unabated with 18 stray dogs poisoned to death in Andhra Pradesh’s Eluru district on Saturday, even as a man upset over barking, killed a stray dog in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur.
The Andhra Pradesh police has filed a case under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act against one K Veerababu who claimed that Chebrole village Sarpanch and Secretary ordered him to kill the dogs by administering them with lethal injections.
Animal rights groups have called for swift action against the village heads following the deaths of the canines. Earlier this year, over 100 stray dogs were killed in Siddipet district of Telangana. Videos of the carcasses of the dogs lying in a pit went viral on social media, causing widespread uproar.
Meanwhile, the horrendous incident of Kanpur was caught on a CCTV at a shop in the area.
Irked with the constant barking of a stray dog, a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur killed the canine with a brick, officials have said.
The incident was caught on a CCTV at a shop in the area. The video clip shows the man, Jackie, walking up to the dog, and throwing the brick on its head.
A case was registered after the owner of the shop, Dharmendra, submitted the CCTV footage to the police.
The police then launched a search to trace Jackie who was on the run, and arrested him, officials said.
Jackie has told the police that he was upset over the constant barking of the dog, so he decided to kill the stray, officials said.