(IN): Dog’s life in JNU worth a fine of Rs 2000 only

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*Dog's life in JNU worth a fine of Rs 2000 only

*Geeta Gupta

 

Posted online: Friday , July 11, 2008 at 12:38:35

Updated: Friday , July 11, 2008 at 12:38:35

 

*New Delhi, July 10* The authorities at the Jawaharlal Nehru University have

expelled a student from the hostel and fined him Rs 2,000 for torturing and

killing a female dog in his room on July 8.

 

Acting Dean of Students' Welfare V K Jain said, " I have heard the dog was

killed in the room by a student and two of his guests. The action taken

against him is appropriate. "

 

The wardens, meanwhile, have prepared a report on what they saw and heard in

the early hours of Tuesday. Everybody in the Kaveri hostel was woken up by

the animal's wails around 2 am.

 

The yelps continued and within an hour they saw blood seeping out of room

248, where the PhD student — 30-year-old Yoronso from Nagaland — stayed.

 

Student Anand Saurabh said, " We demanded that Yoronso open the door. Inside,

the animal was lying dead in a pool of blood. Yoronso and his two friends

had beaten it with iron rods. " Another student said, " The dog's head had

been smashed and limbs dismembered. "

 

Senior warden of the hostel Andrew Lynn was not present that night, but he

handed the eviction letter to Yoronso on Thursday and asked him to vacate

the room by 5 pm.

 

Professor Jain said Yoronso, in his letter of apology to the authorities,

had put forth " self-defence " as the reason. When Newsline tried to speak to

Yoronso in campus on Thursday, he scurried away, shouting back that he had

to take permission from his lawyer to speak to the media.

 

The student from Nagaland is in the fifth year of PhD in Political Sciences

and was classified as a 9B student — or one who is on extension of a year.

He was supposed to vacate the room by Thursday in any case. Students have

questioned whether Yoronso had not been let off lightly. Some also said the

authorities had at first tried to hush up the matter — removing the carcass

and even cleaning the blood.

 

Meanwhile, animal rights practitioners have moved into campus with some

calling JNU a " lawless slaughterhouse " . Lawyer Anjali Sharma of the Citizens

for Animals — an association of animal sympathisers — said, " What happened

in JNU is an offence under Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals Act, and Sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code. " She added

the police are also empowered to arrest such offenders without warrants.

 

NGO Citizens for Welfare and Protection of Animals had filed a complaint

with the Vasant Vihar police station, but no FIR has been registered yet.

Anjali Sharma said, " JNU is conducting an internal inquiry and once the

result is out and a complaint lodged, the police cannot refuse an FIR. "

 

On the other hand, Professor Jain has said the university is open to any

legal scrutiny.

 

*Witnesses, activists shocked, varsity says this is a first*

" There have been rumours of all kinds, but we can't do anything unless

something comes to light. The student has been evicted and slapped with a

fine of Rs 2,000. The police will take any action they think is appropriate.

This is the first such case that has come to our knowledge "

 

*Prof V K Jain*

Acting Dean of Students' Welfare.

 

" When we asked Yoronso to open the door, we saw the dog in a pool of blood

battered to death. The three had been beating the poor dog with iron rods "

 

*Anand Saurabh*

Resident of the hostel

 

" I was nauseated at the degree of cruelty involved and still can't sleep.

The dog was mercilessly beaten to death, her head smashed with a heavy

object and limbs dismembered, "

 

Student whose room is on the same floor as Yoronso

 

What is JNU? A centre for learning, or a depraved, lawless slaughter house?

 

*Anjali Sharma

Lawyer associated with Citizens for Animals *

 

* " We even got a signature campaign done and 41 students signed it,

recognising the cruelty against the dog. The university authorities did not

find it as proof enough for the 'intentional' killing of the dog by those

three people. In this case the police have decided not to register an FIR

unless the results of the inquiry by the JNU, are known " *

 

*Sonya Ghosh

Animal rights' activist who lodged the complaint with police*

 

 

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