Mumbai: Police have booked a sweeper and two others after the carcass of a community cat was found dumped in a trash bin of a housing society in Mira Road.Animal activist Pallavi Patil, who had filed the police complaint against sweeper Shyam Singh, 35, and two others, alleged: “On April 11, the sweeper beat up the cat, and then picked her up by the tail, and dumped her in the collected garbage at N G View Housing Society. A building resident, also an animal lover, tried to rescue the badly injured cat, but the sweeper and a few women residents objected.” By then, the cat succumbed to her injuries. On Patil’s complaint, the next day, Naya Nagar police filed the FIR against the three accused under the BNS sections 325, 351(2), 3(5) and also under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. “We now have to find out who ordered the sweeper to harm the cat,” said the activist.Patil further claimed that when she and the animal lover were coordinating with police about this case, someone removed the dead cat from the garbage. “We have crucial video footage, so there is ample evidence on how the cat was assaulted,” said Patil. “It is sickening how educated people are unleashing such cruelty on animals. The humane and legal action is to sterilize cats in your respective areas.”
