Goat beaten to death in Kaimur, probe on

PATNA: In an interesting case, a woman in Kaimur has lodged an FIR against her neighbour and his family members for allegedly ‘beating to death’ her male goat for trespassing on their campus frequently and meeting the female goat being reared by them. The Kaimur police got the postmortem of the goat conducted by a government veterinary doctor.
The incident took place at village Chaurasia under Mahonia police station area of Kaimur district on Friday morning.However, an FIR was lodged on Saturday only after Radha Devi, while crying hysterically, reached Mohania police station for a second time with her goat’s body, urging the police to take action against the accused.
Radha alleged that her neighbour Sipu Ram and his other family members beat her he-goat to death with rods and sticks as it repeatedly went to meet the she-goat on their campus. The woman also alleged that she incurred a loss of at least Rs15,000, which was the estimated market price of the goat. She was planning to sell the goat on the eve of Bakrid.
Mohania police station SHO Ram Kalyan Yadav said a case was lodged under Section 429 of IPC (mischief by killing or badly hurting cattle) and being investigated as per the law.
“The goat’s postmortem was conducted by a veterinary doctor. The report is awaited,” Yadav said. He said Sipu is the prime accused in the case.
“Both the neighbouring families belong to the same caste and might have an old dispute over livestock entering each other’s premises and other issues, resulting in the killing of the goat. However, things would clear only after further investigation,” the SHO said.