Overview
- Nagarkurnool police booked a case over allegations that about 100 dogs were killed in Thimmaipally, recovering 12–15 carcasses so far and sending them for postmortem under BNS and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provisions.
- The FIR names three accused, including a village sarpanch’s son and the panchayat secretary, after a SAFI activist alleged hired killers used poisonous injections and buried the bodies outside the village.
- Animal-welfare groups now estimate roughly 1,200 canine deaths statewide since December 2025, citing earlier mass-killing complaints in Pathipaka, Pegadapally, Yacharam and Kamareddy linked by activists to poll-time promises.
- In Hanamkonda, Shayampet police clubbed a new Pathipaka complaint of about 200 deaths with an earlier FIR on alleged killings in Arepally and Shayampet, with officers indicating carcasses would be retrieved for forensic tests.
- Separately, an FIR was registered against NIT Warangal’s chief warden over alleged inhumane capture and relocation of campus dogs, and the TGHRC sought a report from GHMC after a Khairatabad child was mauled, prompting the rounding up of 15 sterilised dogs with the attacker to remain confined.