Ahmedabad sessions court confirmed the conviction and one-year jail sentence of a man whose dog attacked his neighbours in 2014, injuring a man and three children. It also ordered the legal service authority to pay compensation to the victims of the attack.
Bhadresh Pandya, 54, a resident of Ashapuri Society in Ghodasar, owned a doberman named Shakti. the dog attacked four people: Avinash Patel, his son Jay, nephew Takshil and another child named Vyom.
Patel lodged an FIR against Pandya for not keeping his dog on a leash, which resulted in the attack. After biting the children, the dog had attacked Patel, who fell and broke his hand.
A metropolitan court, which held him guilty in Jan 2020 and sentenced him to one year jail under Section 338 and three months imprisonment under IPC Sections 289 and Section 337.