Man beats three puppies to death, held

In a case of shocking cruelty, a 40-year-old man allegedly beat three stray puppies to death with an iron rod in the Kusumpur Pahari area near south Delhi's Vasant Kunj.
According to police, the accused, who is a part-time sweeper, has been arrested after the matter came to light a week back and an FIR was registered upon a complaint by a local.
Police said that locals found the carcass of one of the puppies inside a park and suspected that it had been killed. A post-mortem, too, was done at a veterinary hospital in Maqsoodpur.
The complainant told police that he suspected the hand of one Ranbir behind the case as he used to object to the locals feeding the stray puppies.

When grilled in this connection, police said that Ranbir confessed to having killed three puppies because their barking would disturb him. He said he had beaten all three of them to death with a rod and dumped the carcasses in the park.
The carcasses of the two other puppies are suspected to have been devoured by other animals.
Police said a case under Section 429 of IPC and Section 11(1)(L) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, has been registered in the matter at Vasant Kunj (north) police station.