In a bizarre incident, Chhattisgarh police on Monday (2016-02-08) took into custody a goat after a complaint that it ventured into a judge's garden in Janakpur block in Korea district, 250km from here. The goat, which was accused of being a `repeat offender', was released later, but its owner was not so lucky.
Abdul Hasan (40) was arrested and sent to jail on Tuesday on charges of trespass and damaging property , the police said. "My goat scaled the boundary wall again and ate flowers and vegetables in the garden. It was taken to the police station and then police brought me in as well," said Hasan.
Police said the accused had been ignoring warnings given to him for over a week and was eventually detained and charged under Sections 447 (trespass), 427 (damaging and destroying property of others) and 151 (creating public nuisance) IPC on Monday . He was produced in court on Tuesday and sent to jail.
Janakpur station in charge RS Paikra told TO that Hasan had been letting loose his goat into the garden of magistrate S E Ratre for more than a week. He would do so after the magistrate left for office, the officer said. Ratre's gardener, Rajesh Paikra, tried in vain to stop Hasan and then informed police.
Local Congress leader Shailesh Nitin Trivedi slammed the police for the incident, saying: "The arrest of a goat is ridiculous. Chhattisgarh police have made fun of themselves by doing so. Those accused in rape cases are moving freely ."
"The most painful and disappointing aspect is the entry made by an ASI of Chhattisgarh police in the diary that `the goat would graze on the garden, despite warnings'. Chhattisgarh police is communicating with goats!" he added.
Last year, a parrot in Chandrapur in Maharashtra was detained after a woman filed a complaint against it for making obscene remarks. The parrot, named Hariyal, was allegedly trained for two years by its owner, Suresh Sakharkar, to abuse his stepmother, Janabai.
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