The two women offenders in the video, who were wearing surgical gloves, were later identified as students of the nursing college
A video showing two women hitting puppies with sticks till they were dead went viral leading the hospital authorities to initiate probe. The incident happened on Saturday within the campus of state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital.
The video was shot by dental college students from the adjoining hostel veranda. "We hear dogs yapping every day but that day there were several of them wailing. I came to the veranda and saw that two women were beating the puppies up with sticks until they died. We shouted at them and asked them to stop but, they were so much into the act that they could not hear us. The incident happened behind the NRS Nursing Hostel," a student of the dental college said.
The bodies were later dumped in plastic packets near the gynaecological ward of the hospital where Putul Roy, a staff member of the NRS hospital, discovered them. The carcasses were taken to the veterinary hospital in Belgachia for a postmortem. Initially, investigators thought they were poisoned to death but, the preliminary postmortem report said that they had been hacked to death. The report said that heads of four of the 16 puppies have been smashed while the other 12 died of punctured liver. A detailed postmortem report will be submitted within a week.
The hospital has put up a three-member investigating committee headed by the deputy superintendent of the medical college, Dr Dwaipayan Biswas. "It is an inhuman act. The place has been identified on the basis of the viral video clipping. We are looking into the matter. We will soon find out the offenders and they will be punished," Biswas said.
The two women in the video, who were wearing surgical gloves, were later identified as students of the nursing college. A case has been initiated at the Entally Police Station. Police sources said that two FIRs have been filed on the basis of complaints. The section involved is 429 (killing animals) of the Indian Penal Code. The police are also looking at CCTV footages.
Although no one has been arrested so far, sources said that one second year student of the nursing college had been questioned by PS officials and that she had denied being present at the hospital on Saturday. Investigating committee will officially call her for questioning on Tuesday.
TMC MLA and animal rights activist Debasree Roy called the incident barbaric and nightmarish. "I demand a strict and fast expedition of the case and offenders to be brought to books with the strictest punishment," she said.
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The two women offenders in the video, who were wearing surgical gloves, were later identified as students of the nursing college. A case has already been initiated at the Entally Police Station in Kolkata
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