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LAHORE:
Atia Masood, an assistant professor at the Punjab University, filed a civil miscellaneous application on Monday, requesting Lahore High Court (LHC) to take up early her petition seeking action against a veterinary doctor for killing her cat.
Justice James Joseph will hear the application on Tuesday (today).
Masood said that on May 13 the court had directed the Nawab Town SHO to look into the matter. After that, she said, her petition had not been fixed for hearing.
In her petition, she had said, “I used to take my (male) cat to Awais Anees and pay him Rs6,000 per visit.
On January 18, the cat fell sick and I called Anees. He demanded Rs25,000 this time to treat the cat. I paid him Rs10,000 and requested him not to insist on more. Anees administered five injections and a drip to the cat which caused its death.”
Advocate Abdul Rasheed Qureshi, counsel for Masood, told the court Anees had deliberately killed the cat.
“My client filed an application with Nawab Town police to register a case against Anees. The SHO refused to entertain it,” he said.
Qureshi said she had moved the court of a justice of peace but it had dismissed the application as non-maintainable.
He requested the court to dismiss the order of the justice of peace and direct police to register an FIR against the vet under Section 429 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Under Section 429, a person who deliberately kills an animal can be imprisoned for five years.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2015.
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