KARACHI: After authorities took notice of the gruesome incident wherein a camel’s leg was allegedly amputated by a landlord, an official said that the wounded animal would get an artificial leg.
“The camel was shifted to Karachi yesterday and will be fitted with an artificial leg,” Sanghar Deputy Commissioner Imran ul Hassan Khawaja said, while addressing a press conference on Sunday.
The development comes after the police apprehended five people for allegedly cutting the poor animal’s leg.
The suspects were presented before a district and sessions court which then approved their four-day remand. The incident occurred in Sanghar’s Mundh Jamrao area on Friday after the camel had entered an agricultural land. In response, the landlord resorted to physical violence.
The landlord, along with his employees, physically tortured the camel as a punishment for entering the land for fodder and even amputated the animal’s leg.
The incident’s video went viral on social media with thousands of people condemning the brutal action. Despite the uproar, the police only registered a first information report (FIR) against unknown people, Geo News reported, and not the landlord who was involved in the incident.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ijaz later said that the law enforcers have arrested five people in connection with the animal abuse of which two people have confessed to the crime. –Agencies
