Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Five days after the freak incident,where driver of a luxury car was run over by a stray dog sleeping on footpath in Jayanagar.
The Siddapura police have arrested 23-year-old Adhi from his house in Jayanagar 4th block on Monday.
Senior officer told media persons,The accused Adi son of city based businessman was unemployed,ran over his Audi car on the stray dog which was sleeping on last Wednesday.
The dog was badly injured and was missing since then.The entire act was captured on a cctv footage which went viral on social media .
Rashmi Dsouza,members of state animal board taking a serious note on this spoke to senior officials and even Home Minister seeking strict action against the accused .
It should be a lesson to people who violate the rights of the animals will be dealt with strictly irrespective of their social status,she added .
The accused was charged under Prevention of cruelty to animal act and also under section 428 ( commit mischief by killing,poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal or animals) of IPC and released on station bail later. The police have also seized his luxury car for further investigations and issued summons to appear before them in the morning for narcotics test he added.
