Man in India Jailed For Running Car Over Bureaucrat’s Dog
A tea stall owner named Shekhar Kumar was arrested this past thursday for running his car over a dog. The dog turned out to be the pet of a senior bureaucrat. (The dog was rushed to a private hospital for immediate medical attention.)
The above news is a joke. A human being will not be rushed this fast for medical help in the subcontinent, especially if he is poor. And why is that guy arrested? What is his crime? Running his car over a dog, or over the pet of a bureaucrat? Don’t people pelt dogs with stones and abuse them anyway? In a country where dowry deaths take place daily, and where women are treated worse than animals, I don’t think anyone should be arrested for injuring a dog.
News Source: Hindustan Times
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September 23rd, 2009 22:37 GMT
From the news item first thing that becomes clear is that the driver was drunk. This itself explains it inspite of the twist which media journalist tried to give it to make it seem as if it was because the dog belonged to a bureaucrat.
In India driving under influence is a crime and this person was obviously arrested when he was handed over to police by the people on the road.
Now leaving aside this example, I should mention for posterity that in India mistreating an animal is a crime by law (THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, 1960) and if someone actually complaints to the police and person can be punished or fined. I had seen an example myself when one person who was not taking bad care of his dog was fined and his dog taken away.
September 24th, 2009 01:29 GMT
I think that the driver being drunk was an excuse to arrest him. What if he had run over a stray dog? As far as “laws” in the subcontinent are concerned, we all know just how well they are applied. (Haven’t we heard that rich people’s dogs eat better food than poor people.) Treatment is accorded with money in the subcontinent.
September 24th, 2009 06:25 GMT
It might also depend upon whether the driver ran over the dog intentionally, but that driver being drunk kind of makes that question irrelevant. Pets here get run over by cars fairly often, usually by accident, but anyone who intentionally harms an animal can be prosecuted. I believe rightly so; it reveals a malicious heart.
September 24th, 2009 09:27 GMT
@ Yusha: nothing new in what you say. It’s well-known that in the U.S., rich people can get away with murder if they hire expensive attorneys. The poor are invariably convicted (even if innocent).
September 24th, 2009 17:06 GMT
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Laws and people have become stricter due to incidents of drunken driving. I can very well believe that he was arrested fo being drunk. I have myself seen people on the road objecting if they saw someone cruelly hitting a stay dog or cat. This is actually common nowadays and I have not seen anyone mistreat even a stray dog in many years. Ofcourse, just shooing away and animal who enters your property is not seen as cruelty, it is rather those incidents when you pursue an animal or you try to hurt or injure it or hit them with large stones etc.