In what comes as a disturbing incident of brutality against animals, an eight-year-old Labrador named Bruno was mauled to death in Kerala’s Adimalathura beach on Monday. A highly disturbing video of the incident has gone viral on the realms of social media platforms where some sick-minded and vapid individuals can be seen unleashing their internal evil on the hapless animal.
Reportedly, Bruno had recently started going to the beach in the morning but used to be back home by noon. On a routine morning visit to the beach, the sweet dog wandered off and slept under one of the boats of the accused. On Monday, when Bruno did not return home, its owner Christuraj and her sister Sony P sent their brother-in-law, Andrew, to look for the dog.
Upon reaching the beach, Andrew found three youngsters who were brutally thrashing his pet. The inhumane scamps hit Bruno with a thick stick, then hung him on the boat with a fishing hook, and continued raining blows till the dog seemed dead. Andrew failed to confront the trio, as he was overpowered. The perpetrators then took Bruno’s carcass and hurled it into the sea, without any remorse as Andrew helplessly looked on.
A person who captured the incident on his mobile phone later shared the clip with Christuraj, who along with and his siblings shared the clip of the ghastly video on Facebook and demanded ‘Justice for Bruno’. The video was picked up by an influential Instagram page and the public emotion snowballed into a movement.
“We came to know that they will bring the matter with the help of one of their relatives employed at the coastal police station nearby. We felt we wouldn’t get justice and we took to Facebook so that everyone would know what happened to our Bruno,” said Sony P.
Hurt by the painful death of the dog, two Kerala high court judges initiated a suo moto public interest litigation for the protection of animal rights and issue a string of instructions.
“We feel this will be a fitting tribute to the hapless dog that succumbed to the acts of human cruelty and disturbed by which we had initiated these proceedings,” a division bench of justices Jayasankaran Nambiar and P Gopinath said about its direction to the court’s registrar to rename the petition as “In Re: Bruno (Suo moto proceedings initiated by the high court in the matter of executive and legislative inaction of the state government in the matter of protection of animal rights)”.
Kerala has in the last few years witnessed many cases of brutality against animals. Last year, a ten-year-old elephant was found with a fractured jaw, in excruciating pain in Kerala’s Kollam district and later succumbed to her injuries after failing to eat anything for a week straight.
Reportedly, some miscreants had fed the gentle giant, a cracker-infested pineapple, which caused all the misery and agony to the animal. What made the matters worse was the fact that a similar incident was repeated a few months later and this time a pregnant elephant in Palakkad became prey to the evil intentions of some malevolent. It was also reported that the elephant had developed a tumour in the stomach and was also suffering from pneumonia.
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It is indeed shocking and disturbing to hear that incidents of brutality against animals have become routine in our country. How twisted and diabolical one must have to be to conjure the evil courage to do something like this? The country needs to have a stricter law against cruelty towards animals so that the perpetrators, which happen to be minors in the case of Bruno’s lynching can be put behind the bars as well.
And ou course, PETA and other so called Animal Right Activist and Urban Naxal are tied up with Fevicol on their Lips and Fingers ….