In a gruesome case of sexual assault in the state of Haryana, a pregnant goat was killed after being raped by eight men of the locality. The goat’s owner identified as Aslu, approached the Nagina police station with a complaint after finding the goat dead in the barn.
The station-in-charge Rajbir recorded the owner’s statement which stated that eight men stole the pregnant goat and raped it in a desolate house in Mewat town in the Nuh district of Haryana. The goat died presumably because of excessive bleeding in its private parts and shock a day after the incident. The goat will be examined by a veterinarian, police were reported as saying.
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Reports hint toward the possibility that the accused could have been alcoholics and drug addicts, however, the same has not been confirmed as of yet.
Emergency Response Coordinator at People for Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) Indian chapter, Meet Ashar reported to the media personnel that an FIR has been registered against the perpetrators under sections 34, 277 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code along with sections 11(1)(a) and (I) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
PETA India’s Emergency Response Coordinator, Meet Ashar, claimed the goat was “tortured and abused” after it was “gangraped”, The Indian Express reported. “People who are violent often start with animals as victims and then move on to humans. This case should, therefore, worry everyone,” he added.
The postmortem of the goat is yet to be done, while a report by Deccan Chronicle claimed that three of the eight accused have been identified but no arrests have been made in connection with the case yet.