Bengaluru chicken shop owner booked for poisoning 2 dogs

Bengaluru: A fight between owners of a chicken shop and garage over waste-dumping ended in miscreants poisoning two stray dogs, including a four-month-old puppy, to death in Vijaya Bank Layout, Mico Layout recently.

Resident Varsha Anjanappa filed a police complaint, accusing chicken shop owner Tyagaraj of poisoning the two dogs to death. Accordingly, a criminal case under Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and Sections 325 (mischief by killing, poisoning, or maiming any animal) and 351 (act with criminal intimidation) has been registered against Tyagaraj, owner of GEV Broilers.

A senior police officer said they are waiting for the autopsy report to take further action. “We issued a notice to Tyagaraj, but the autopsy report will help us in taking the case ahead,” he said.

Varsha, a private company employee and an animal lover, she and some more residents feed stray dogs near her house. One of them was four-year-old Whitey and the puppy was Brownie. Along with other strays, they slept outside the chicken shop or the garage.

Akbar Khan, owner of HKGN Automobile and Garage, would regularly fight with Tyagaraj over unscientific disposal of waste materials from his chicken shop.

“On May 31 morning, Whitey collapsed and was taken to a nearby veterinary hospital, where it died. Next morning, Brownie too collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. But he too died,” she said. On both occasions, it was Akbar who shifted the dogs to the hospitals.

According to Varsha, doctors at the hospital told them the dogs were poisoned to death.

“Tyagaraj added rat poison to the meat and threw it in front of the shop. When questioned, he told us he had targeted the rats, and not the dogs,” Varsha told police.