Gurgaon:
The District Customer Disagreement Redressal Online forum on Tuesday bought the Local Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to offer interim payment of Rs 2 lakh to a female who was hurt after being assaulted by a family pet dog in August.
The online forum likewise stated if the MCG desires, this payment quantity can be recuperated from the dog owner.
On August 11, victim Munni, who works as a domestic help in the area, was assaulted by Vinit Chikara’s dog while she was on her method to deal with her sister-in-law.
She had actually suffered vital injuries on her head and face and was referred from the civil healthcare facility in Gurugram to Delhi’s Safdarjung healthcare facility.
In the FIR signed up at Civil Line police headquarters, the dog’s type was pointed out as ‘Pitbull’. Later on, the owner notified that the type is a ‘Dogo Argentino’.
The online forum directed the MCG to take the dog in custody and cancel Chikara’s licence to own a dog with instant result.
It likewise directed to prohibit 11 foreign types and advised MCG to keep all strays in pounds after taking them into custody.
The online forum likewise directed MCG to create a policy for family pet canines within 3 months.
” In the interest of justice a quantity of Rs 2 lakhs is bought to be paid as payment by method of interim relief by the MCG to the victim who is specified to be an extremely bad woman doing the family operates in your homes of others,” the order read.
” It is even more explained that the owner of the dog had actually blatantly broken the unwritten law and guidelines framed thereunder for having actually kept the prohibited type of dog i.e. Dogo Argentino as a family pet dog, so the MCG is put at liberty to recuperate the quantity of Rs 2 lakhs from the owner of the dog,” it stated.
In the event, on behalf of the victim, the legal representative Sandeep Saini had actually submitted a problem in the customer court under the Customer Security Act 2019 in which payment of Rs 20 lakhs was required and MCG and dog owner Neetu Chhikara was made a celebration.
After hearing all the celebrations, the customer court of Sanjeev Jindal on Tuesday released orders to totally prohibit 11 hazardous type pets in the district in addition to an order to pay interim payment to the victim.
” Based on the alert of the Federal government of India outdated 25.4.2016 the following family pet canines of foreign types are thus totally prohibited with instant result w.e.f. 15.11.2022 that are American Pit-bull terriers, Dogo Argentino, Rottweiler, Neapolitan mastiff, Boerboel, Presa Canario, Wolf dog, Bandog, American Bulldog, Fila Brasileiro and Walking Cane Corso,” the court order read.
” The MCG is directed to cancel all the licences, if any released in this regard in favour of the dog owners for keeping the mentioned types with instant result and take into its custody the aforementioned pets,” it specified.
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