Overview
- Delhi Police, which announced action Tuesday, registered two cases linked to a viral Kirti Nagar clash involving a dead stray dog and an assault outside a police station.
- A resident’s complaint says a security guard hit a stray with an iron rod on May 7 in J Block and the dog later died after treatment at private veterinary facilities.
- A May 9 video shows animal activist Jasmeet Kaur Arora slapping the uniformed guard with a slipper at the Kirti Nagar Police Station gate as officers look on.
- Officers booked the guard under Section 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and booked Arora under BNS Sections 115(1) and 126 for hurt and wrongful restraint.
- Police say the veterinary hospital has not issued a medico-legal note on the cause of death, and investigators are taking witness statements, checking CCTV, and reviewing the guard’s May 11 medical exam after his complaint.