A medical student, who hurled a dog from a terrace and his friend who filmed the incident, were on Wednesday arrested but soon released on bail.
Their arrests came after the shocking video went viral, drawing outrage. The injured dog rescued later, is now undergoing treatment and “doing well”.
“We arrested Gowtham Sudarshan and Ashish Pal today and they were produced before Sriperumbudur Judicial Magistrate court,” Kundrathur Police Inspector Ruban said.
“The duo were granted bail by the court,” he told PTI.
The dog was taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment and is doing well, police said.
Ruban said the dog luckily survived and was taken to a veterinary hospital. “It has suffered fractures in its front and rear legs. It is being treated.
“It is nothing short of a miracle that the dog survived,” he added.
Gowtham Sudarshan, a final year MBBS student of a private medical college, flung the dog from the terrace of a building in Chennai and the act was video recorded allegedly by his friend Ashish Pal.
After the video went viral, animal welfare activists, including Antony Clement Rubin and Jennifer Jacob, lodged a complaint with police which registered an FIR and launched a search for them.
The duo were booked for cruel treatment meted out to an animal under IPC sections 428 and 429 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (Sec 11 (1-a) (Inputs: PTI)
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