In yet another pet abduction in Gurgaon, a German shepherd has allegedly been taken from the Badshahpur area. Pluto, as the dog was called, was allegedly dragged inside a car by unknown men around 10 pm on February 9. However, a case was registered by the dog’s owner, Dr Inderjit Singh Yadav, only yesterday at the Badshapur police station under Section 379 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code.
According to the complaint, Pluto had been with Yadav for the past one and a half years. Yadav said he had even examined a CCTV footage that showed the dog being dragged into the car by some people around 10 pm. However, the footage, submitted to the police, is too grainy to be able to throw any light on the abduction. Yadav said he tried to look for Pluto himself on February 10 and 11 but failed to find him. However, other sources say he went out of town.
But what will undoubtedly strike every pet owner as strange is why Yadav waited almost a month to lodge a police complaint about his abducted pet. No one can even throw light on what the dog was doing alone on the streets at night, when it was abducted.
The police, on the other hand, say they have launched a search operation for the vehicle and the dog, but one wonders on what basis they are investigating the case, when they have neither CCTV clues, nor a photo of the pet. However, giving a stock reply, Deepak Kumar, the investigating officer in the case, said, “We are in the process of getting more information. We have not traced the vehicle yet, but we are investigating the case.”
Given this lax approach of both the owner and the police — and the many cases involving the dog meat trade that emerged last year — we can only hope Pluto is safe.
