Kolkata Police arrest two nursing students for allegedly killing 16 puppies
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IBNS): Two days after the bodies of as many as 16 puppies were recovered from the campus of state government run Nil Ratan Sarkar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital in central Kolkata's Sealdah area, police on Tuesday arrested two nursing students for allegedly beating up those puppies to death, officials said.
According to reports, arrested women have been identified as Moutusi Mondal and Soma Barman who are the first and second year nursing students of the medical college respectively.
Earlier on Sunday morning, bodies of 16 stray puppies were found inside the NRS campus and their mother was rescued with severe injuries.
Later in the day, an amateur video showing two women were brutally beating up those puppies with a rod went viral on social media and sparked outrage among the netizens as well as city's animal lovers.
After completing the puppies' post-mortem, doctors of a Kolkata animal hospital on Monday confirmed that those stray puppies died of traumatic brain injury.
Meanwhile, members of city's animal protection groups lodged complaints with Entally Police Station while the medical college authority had constituted a committee to probe the matter.
After examining the video and questioning eyewitnesses, the committee and the police identified five suspected women.
A local police official said that after a marathon interrogation, two of them were arrested on Tuesday evening while role of few others are also under police's scanner.
"The women have been charged under IPC sections 429 (Mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc., of any value or any animal of the value of fifty rupees) and 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), and section 11(l) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (Multilates any animal or kills any animal [including stray dogs] by using the method of strychnine injections in the heart or in any other unnecessarily cruel manner)," the police officer told IBNS.
The held women will be produced before a local court on Wednesday, according to police officials.
Meanwhile, two more women, whose pictures mistakenly went viral on social media platforms as the killers of those puppies, on Tuesday lodged complaints against the fake information spreaders with two police stations in West Bengal as well as Kolkata Police's cyber crime cell at Lalbazar, reports said.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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