KOLKATA: A 42-year-old defence personnel in Salt Lake was arrested for allegedly letting loose his pet dog — an adult Rottweiler — on a neighbour in the middle of a tiff on Friday night.
Sumitesh Kennedy was arrested and has been sent to judicial custody for three days following a complaint lodged by IC Block resident Avinash Kumar, who received 20 injury marks on his hands and other parts of body.
The dog is with the Kennedy family that left the Salt Lake home on Saturday and shifted to a relative’s house. Kennedy’s wife too was injured while trying to rein in the dog.
The incident happened at the central government employees’ quarter at IC Block when Kennedy allegedly picked up a fight with the president of the housing society association, Sunil Lal. “Kennedy had some previous grudge and picked up a fight with Lal at 11pm. I reached there after receiving a call from Lal. When we asked him to leave, he began abusing us and instructed his dog to attack me,” said Kumar, a coast guard official and association secretary.
Bidhannagar south police station booked Kennedy under IPC sections 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 326 (causing grievous hurt) and 289 (negligent conduct with respect to animal). Kennedy’s lawyer Kaushik Das said: “No owner can control an animal absolutely. The dog acted on its own and my client hadn’t instructed it to attack.”
