Overview

• The boy contacted his mother in Germany for help and has since been placed with her family in Cherthala, police said.
• SPCA volunteers and municipal workers removed 26 pedigree dogs from the Tripunithura flat, sending three for veterinary care and relocating the rest to the SPCA shelter in Chellanam.
• Officers have served notice to the man, identified as Sudheesh, and asked his family to produce him, with reports indicating he is staying with his parents and was briefly hospitalised.
• Investigators say a case could be registered if deliberate abandonment is established, and the owner would need a court order to reclaim the animals.
• Local residents had complained about the dogs, the municipality issued a notice on August 7, and SPCA says it will file complaints after some neighbours allegedly obstructed feeding, citing BNS section 325.