Animal cruelty: Six arrested for organising dog fight

BAHAWALPUR: Police raided a field in Chak 24, Abbasia on Friday and arrested several fight organisers and dog owners. Despite a ban on dog fight, the participants had come from Channi Goth, Jindupir, Feroza, Akhtar Nagar and Cholistan to bet hundreds of thousands of rupees on the game. Station House Officer Saifullah Khan said that the fight had been organised in a sugarcane field owned by Riaz Ahmad, a lumberdar. He said spectators ran away on seeing the police. Police said some of the men attacked the police team, who had to baton charged the mob. Police said thousand of rupees of bet money was also recovered.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12^th, 2013.