Overview
- FIRs have been registered against about 15 people, including multiple sarpanches and panchayat officials, across Hanamkonda and Kamareddy districts.
- An activist’s complaint in Kamareddy reported roughly 200 dogs killed within days across five villages, adding to earlier allegations from Hanamkonda.
- Veterinary teams exhumed graves and sent viscera to forensic labs, with officials reporting over 100 carcasses recovered in Hanamkonda and around 30 at one Hanamkonda site cited elsewhere.
- Complaints allege hired workers used poisonous injections, and a video from Jagtiyal shows a man injecting a dog that collapses moments later.
- Cases have been filed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and BNS 325, as recent Supreme Court guidance emphasizes lawful animal birth control measures over killing.