Overview

• Police allege Dahiya beat five puppies to death near a Jabalpur school on June 30 after they barked throughout the night.
• He was arrested on July 2 and booked under sections 296 and 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for obscene acts and animal maiming.
• Animal activists shared video evidence of the killings and report that Dahiya verbally abused them when they confronted him.
• One puppy’s carcass has been sent for a post-mortem examination, with forensic results still pending.
• A mid-April puppy killing in Hyderabad remains unregistered under India’s animal cruelty laws, highlighting gaps in enforcement.