Youth falls prey to stray dog menace

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 21

Yet another youth, Yuvraj, an employee at a chemist shop in Model Town locality, has fallen victim to the stray dog menace. He was attacked by a stray dog while he was going back to his residence from his work place on a motorcycle last night. He suffered severe injuries on his knee, hand and arm and was shifted to a city hospital.

This is the second major incident of attack by stray dogs in Model Town and Model Town Extension localities in the city in the past one week. On Monday, a biker, Jugraj Singh, had sustained multiple injuries when he was attacked by a pack of more than six stray dogs.

A city-based RTI activist, Arvind Sharma, said he had intimated the officials of the health branch of Municipal Corporation about the threat posed by stray dogs, some of them quite aggressive and ferocious having attacked several people, including elderly persons, women and kids during the past couple of months, without evoking any positive response from them.

Sharma has lodged a complaint with the Punjab Human Rights Commission (PHRC) about the ever increasing menace of stray dogs and the total apathy of the MC officials towards taking corrective measures as well as the tardy sterilisation of dogs.

He said the PHRC had been apprised of yet another youth (biker) falling prey to the attack by stray dogs so that appropriate directions could be issued to the MC officials to save the city residents from frequent attacks by stray dogs.

The MC officials concerned were not available for comments on the issue.