Criminals whisk away chasing canine
Inder Singh Bisht NEW DELHI, June 7, 2016, DHNS:
For Vasant Kunj (South) police station it may just be a case of theft, but for the owners of Zorro, a Siberian Husky dog, it’s the loss of a ‘family member’.
“For policemen he might just be a dog, but for us he was part of our family. They will not understand the real pain which I and my family are going through for the last four days since the abduction of Zorro,” said Aftaab Khan, its owner.
A year back, Khan got Zorro from a friend as a gift and his family had grown close to it. According to Khan’s younger son Kasifh, the dog responds to the human voice with a wolf-like sound of its own.
On Friday morning, Zorro was “abducted” while chasing a van packed with pigs near the owners’s home in Vasant Kunj Enclave.
“Like always I took Zorro for his morning walk, when a kilometre away from our house in the jungle of Sultan Garhi dargah, I saw some men standing near an Innova car in a suspicious manner,” Khan said.
Pigs were squealing inside the car, and this made Zorro, who was not on leash, run towards it. “The men saw the dog running towards them and went inside the car and started it,” Khan added.
Zorro chased the van for 300 metres when it slowed down and the men tried to pull the dog inside, but failed.
Half a kilometer further, however, the men in the car managed to get the dog and sped away, Khan said.
“I was trailing them very far away and couldn’t even notice the registration number of the van,” Khan said.
He returned to the spot where he had first spotted the group, hoping to get some video footage from a CCTV camera installed in a house there. However, it turned out that the camera was not functioning.
“Had I kept on chasing the van and not returned thinking that the CCTV camera might throw up crucial details about the vehicle’s registration number and the identity of the abductors, I might have either caught them or made them release Zorro,” Khan lamented.
The entire Khan family has spared no effort in trying to get their Zorro back. They hope the media attention might make the captors release their beloved pet. “Gradually I have started to come to terms with the abduction of Zorro. I might not see him back again. However, I am hoping that wherever he is kept he should be properly taken care of, ” Khan said.
An FIR under section 379 IPC (punishment for theft) has been registered and a police team is looking into the case.
“For policemen he might just be a dog, but for us he was part of our family. They will not understand the real pain which I and my family are going through for the last four days since the abduction of Zorro,” said Aftaab Khan, its owner.
A year back, Khan got Zorro from a friend as a gift and his family had grown close to it. According to Khan’s younger son Kasifh, the dog responds to the human voice with a wolf-like sound of its own.
On Friday morning, Zorro was “abducted” while chasing a van packed with pigs near the owners’s home in Vasant Kunj Enclave.
“Like always I took Zorro for his morning walk, when a kilometre away from our house in the jungle of Sultan Garhi dargah, I saw some men standing near an Innova car in a suspicious manner,” Khan said.
Pigs were squealing inside the car, and this made Zorro, who was not on leash, run towards it. “The men saw the dog running towards them and went inside the car and started it,” Khan added.
Zorro chased the van for 300 metres when it slowed down and the men tried to pull the dog inside, but failed.
Half a kilometer further, however, the men in the car managed to get the dog and sped away, Khan said.
“I was trailing them very far away and couldn’t even notice the registration number of the van,” Khan said.
He returned to the spot where he had first spotted the group, hoping to get some video footage from a CCTV camera installed in a house there. However, it turned out that the camera was not functioning.
“Had I kept on chasing the van and not returned thinking that the CCTV camera might throw up crucial details about the vehicle’s registration number and the identity of the abductors, I might have either caught them or made them release Zorro,” Khan lamented.
The entire Khan family has spared no effort in trying to get their Zorro back. They hope the media attention might make the captors release their beloved pet. “Gradually I have started to come to terms with the abduction of Zorro. I might not see him back again. However, I am hoping that wherever he is kept he should be properly taken care of, ” Khan said.
An FIR under section 379 IPC (punishment for theft) has been registered and a police team is looking into the case.
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