THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There has been pressure from influential people on the Vattiyoorkavu police not to register a case against Thiruvananthapuram Valiyavila native Venugopalan Nair who allegedly inflicted serious injuries to a two-month-old puppy. But V Ajesh, the Station House Officer was firm that a case should be slapped against Venugopalan where he himself took the statements from S S Aravindan, the complainant, and filed the FIR on Wednesday.
The puppy is in a serious condition and the doctors at the State Government Multi-Speciality Veterinary Hospital, Kudappanakkunnu, have scheduled multiple surgeries on the black-colour puppy’s fractured jaw, broken thigh and hip bones on Friday morning.
The gruesome incident happened on Monday on Mannarathala Balakrishnan Road at Valiyavila under Vattiyoorkavu Police station limits. Aravindan’s mother witnessed her next-door neighbour, Venugopalan Nair, attacking the puppy without any provocation.
Aravindan, an assistant professor in a government college in Malappuram who came to visit his mother during Onam, took the seriously injured puppy to Venugopalan Nair’s home to find out the cause of the attack.
“Unfortunately, neither the attacker nor his family members showed any form of remorsefulness. This led me to file a case against him as anyone who sees the condition of the puppy would feel bad. But that did not happen in this case here. Fortunately, Ajesh, the SHO, did a commendable job as he was horrified to see the puppy’s condition.
Apart from multiple fractures, the puppy has become hearing impaired too, probably due to the trauma it had been inflicted,” Aravindan told TNIE.
