Comments on: Man in India Jailed For Running Car Over Bureaucrat’s Dog http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html Pakistan Politics, Current Affairs, Business and Lifestyle Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:29:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hend http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-296508 Hend Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:40 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html#comment-296508 <p>MY 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.</p> MY 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.

]]> By: Shakir Lakhani http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-296402 Shakir Lakhani Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:27:01 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html#comment-296402 <p>@ 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).</p> @ 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).

]]> By: James Killian Spratt http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-296365 James Killian Spratt Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:25:28 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html#comment-296365 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: Mohammad Yusha http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-296308 Mohammad Yusha Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:29:48 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html#comment-296308 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: Hend http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-296259 Hend Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:37:50 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/man-in-india-jailed-for-running-car-over-bureaucrats-dog.html#comment-296259 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

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