IG Garhwal range Sanjay Gunjyal said the MLA from Mussoorie was arrested from outside a hotel in Patel Nagar area on the basis of an FIR lodged against him and his associates at Nehru Colony police station here in connection with the assault on the police horse on March 14.
BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi who is accused of allegedly attacking police horse Shaktiman, was arrested on Friday morning in Dehradun.
The attack had sparked an outrage and led to an FIR being filed against Joshi on Sunday, for allegedly breaking one of Shaktiman's legs, during a protest against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday for "misuse" of funds.
IG Garhwal range Sanjay Gunjyal said the MLA from Mussoorie was arrested from outside a hotel in Patel Nagar area on the basis of an FIR lodged against him and his associates at Nehru Colony police station here in connection with the assault on the police horse on March 14.
The official said Joshi was being interrogated. He, however, refused to disclose where the MLA has been taken.
Reacting sharply to the development, BJP lodged a protest with Governor K K Paul and alleged it was "abduction" of its MLA.
"The manner in which Joshi was picked up from outside a hotel suggests he was abducted. Those who picked him up were in plain clothes and it is not clear whether they were police personnel or goondas," Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Assembly Ajay Bhatt said.
Bhatt said he had called on Governor K K Paul to register his protest against the manner in which the party legislator was picked up.
The injured hind leg on the horse was amputated in an emergency life-saving surgery on Thursday late night.
The surgery was conducted at a veterinary hospital here by a team of doctors led by surgeon Feroze Khambatta, hours after Army doctors from Pune opined that one of the hind legs of the horse that was fractured will have to be amputated as the animal might lose its life by tomorrow due to spread of gangrene from the wound.
"The surgery has gone as planned," Uttarakhand DGP B S Sidhu said after a limb of the horse, which was still in pain and could not stand on its feet, was removed."
Stating that Shaktiman will take a month to recover from the surgery, Sidhu said that in the meantime he will be given temporary prosthetic aid in the form of artificial legs which will be tailor made to his specifications.
Earlier, the BJP worker identified as Pramod Bora was arrested from Haldwani in Nainital district for forcefully pulling the bridle of the horse and causing its fall at the protest venue on March 14.
(With PTI inputs)
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