Tuesday , Jun 30, 2009 . Page 3 . News Mumbai: Even as the Andheri police filed a first information report (FIR) last week in the case of two horses that plunged off the Andheri flyover, NGO Plants and Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Mumbai took the issue a step further by forwarding complaints to deputy commissioners of police of Zone VIII and Zone X and urged them to take immediate action in the case.
In the letter to DCPs Nisar Tamboli and KMM Prasanna, PAWS-Mumbai referred to a visit made by Newsline (along with PAWS-Mumbai representatives) to an area behind Hotel Leela Kempinski in Sahar, where the alleged owner of the horses is suspected to stay and maintain a makeshift stable.
The letter stated: “A person named Robert has 8-9 horses. He keeps them in an open land near an Airport Authority of India plot behind Hotel Leela in Sahar. While talking to residents in the area, we came to know that the two dead horses also belonged to this person. In fact, body of a horse is also suspected to be buried at the spot.” Paws urged the DCPs to consider these revelations and take strong action in the issue.
Responding to the complaint, DCP Prassanna, in-charge of the Sahar area, said that investigation was on and the owner of the horses would soon be nabbed after a complete search. But A A Sonawane, police sub-inspector of the Andheri police station and the investigating officer in the case said that there is no progress in the case.
Meanwhile, Sunish Subramanian, secretary of PAWS-Mumbai, said that they have also taken up the issue with the traffic police and dispatched complaints to the officials on Monday.
