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Mira Road woman stands up to goons to save stray dog

A brave Mira Road resident suffered obscene insults and even death threats to her husband, when she tried to save a stray dog from being grievously attacked by two alleged drug addicts in the dead of the night on Tuesday.

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A brave Mira Road resident suffered obscene insults and even death threats to her husband, when she tried to save a stray dog from being grievously attacked by two alleged drug addicts in the dead of the night on Tuesday.

Melodee Fernandes was walking her dog and feeding strays in Sheetal Nagar around midnight when two bike-borne men approached her. One of them told the other to pick up a paver block and fling it at one of the stray dogs.

"The man was extremely agitated. He looked like he was drunk or on drugs. I requested them not to throw that block at the dog. He then started hurling abuses at me. He said that I didn't know who he was and that he had killed 21 dogs," said Fernandes.

Fernandes then warned the two men to leave the area, or she would call the cops. "They asked me to call whomever I wanted. They even said that I should call my husband downstairs and they would cut him into pieces and feed him to the dogs. But I didn't budge from there because I was too worried about them attacking the stray dogs if I left."

The two men then started circling the area on their bikes. Fernandes then called Salim Charania, president of NGO PAWA (Peace for Animal Welfare), who reached the spot in 10 minutes. "By the time I reached the area, the two men had disappeared. Melodee's husband and I then started searching for the them and found them quite close to the site. We confronted them, and in the meantime, called the police. One of the men had called his friends and by then there were 7 to 8 more people there," said Charania.

By then, a patrolling cop had arrived at the spot. "When they saw the police, their demeanour changed. Instead of the profanities they were hurling at me, they started calling me 'behen'. The police officer even told me not to file a complaint and settle the matter there. But I was determined to file a complaint," said Fernandes.

According to Fernandes, the police tried to dissuade her from filing a complaint. "They said let him be. He is under the influence of drugs. But what if he does the same thing tomorrow? What if he threatens someone else?" she said.

A non-cognisable complaint was registered by Kanakia police under IPC Sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

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