Chennai medicos who flung dog get bail, fined Rs 10,000

Chennai: Two medicos of a private medical college who were arrested for flinging a dog off a terrace in Kundrathur were enlarged on bail by a judicial magistrate court in Sriperumpudur, in neighbouring Kancheepuram district, on Wednesday.

A Kundrathur police team led by Inspector Frank picked up the duo on Tuesday night in a southern part of the state. The two were brought to the city and were produced before a court in Sriperumpudur on Wednesday morning. The judicial magistrate who heard the case enlarged them on bail on personal surety bond of Rs 10,000.    

The medicos were identified as Gowtham Sudarshan and Ashish Paul, both pursuing final year M.B.B.S in a college in Kundrathur. Their act of dropping the dog from a height caught the attention of the lovers of pets and animals who were outraged by this cynical acto of cruelty. Kundrathur police who had registered the case against the duo summoned them through their parents, but the summons was ignored. The duo was then booked under section 428 and 429 of Indian Penal Code (IPC). The two medicos vanished after the video featuring a man clad in a white shirt, believed to be Gautam Sudarshan, holding the pup by its neck and back. Ashish Paul purportedly captured the dog's fall on his video camera in slow motion. The incident purportedly took place in a residential compound in which Ashish was staying, where Gowtham used to visit him.