Deputy Superintendent of Police (Musaboni) Ajit Kumar Vimal said the 50-year-old farmer, Simon Sardar, was "not ready to be convinced despite our best effort to make him understand that a complaint cannot be lodged against a hen."
A cat had suddenly pounced on the hen moving around near Sardar's house yesterday but it managed to escape running towards a verandah where food was being cooked, the DSP said.
When the farmer arrived at the police station with the hen, the officer in charge of the police station, Satnarayan Sharma, convinced him that a complaint cannot be lodged against a hen.
The officer in charge has asked Sardar to instead to file an application with the block circle officer requesting compensation for the damage, Vimal said.
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