Alam, who runs a restaurant in Bulandshahr, said he had actually raised the cat with “much love and care” after it was provided to him by a friend in March 2021, when it was simply 2 months old. But situations forced him to offer Rose, his animal, to one Tabrez Khan in Hyderabad. He then employed a Gujarat-based transportation business, which has a branch in Delhi, to provide the cat to its brand-new owner.
On March 3 this year, I turned over the cat in a basket to 2 staff members of the transportation business at Delhi’s Nizamuddin train station from where they were expected to capture a train and take Rose to Hyderabad. Later, I was notified that the cat had actually left. Despite duplicated calls, the company’s owner, Md Anas, didn’t react. This required me to approach the chief of Bulandshahr cops Shlok Kumar with a demand to trace the cat, following which the senior officer bought a probe,” said Alam.
“A show cause notice was issued to the company’s owner,” said an officer. When TOI gotten in touch with Anas, who accepted pay out the payment for the cat, he said, “I have requested the police to give me some time to arrange the money. However, there is a possibility that Alam didn’t lock the basket properly and the cat sneaked out.”