Mumbai
In cities apartments or housing societies culture, neighbors or society residents are often seen getting entangled with each other due to pet doggie. In a similar case, a Mumbai magistrate court has recently sentenced a man to four months in jail, as his pet dog had bitten a neighbor inside the apartment lift and injured him. While hearing the case of Maharashtra State vs Rishabh Maushik Patel, Judicial Magistrate First Class Suhas Vijaya P Bhosle found that despite repeated warnings by the neighbor, the pet dog jumped and injured him, while the owner of the accused dog failed to keep him under control and he failed to take care of the potentially dangerous animal.
Accused not entitled to softening: Court
According to the report of the bar and bench, in the judgment on May 21, the court said, “Given the serious circumstances, the records show that the one and a half year old son of the one and a half year old at the time of the incident was in the lift. The pet is pulled inside the lift, which is usually for the use of humans. ” The court further said, “The informator was hurt due to the action of the accused. Given the crimes proved and the case prescribed for the facts, the accused is not entitled to any kind of softening.”
What is the whole matter?
The case is of February 1, 2018, when the victim in the Alpha apartment in Worli, Ramik Shah was in the lift with his one and a half year old son and domestic assistant, when the lift stopped on the third floor, the accused, Rishabh Patel, tried to enter the lift with his pet dog. Once Shah was requested to wait for Patel to wait for his child to be afraid of his dogs, Patel allegedly forcibly entered the lift and allegedly “bounce” the dog on Shah. Then the pet dog bitten Shah’s left hand after which Shah demanded medical treatment and lodged an FIR at the Worli police station.
The accused was later charged under Section 324 (voluntary injury), 289 (negligent conduct in relation to animal) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). During the trial proceedings, the prosecution clearly confirmed the incident with testimony, CCTV footage and medical reports and got the accused blamed. On which the court sentenced.
