HYDERABAD: The gruesome killing of a four-year-old by a pack of stray dogs in the city on Sunday was taken up as a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) by the Telangana high court on Wednesday.
Taking cognisance of a media report on Pradeep, 4, being mauled to death by the dogs, chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan converted it into a PIL and will hear the matter on Thursday.
With the parents giving no complaint and local police not registering a case, the CJ bench decided to take up the boy's death as a suo motu PIL.
The CJ, who was of the view that some preventive action plan was urgently needed, is likely to ask the state and its agencies, such as municipal, revenue and veterinary departments, to come up with ways to deal with the menace of stray dogs to ensure there are no such incidents in the future. Pradeep was walking in the parking area of an automobile workshop in Amberpet, where his father works as a security guard, when he was surrounded by the feral pack and viciously attacked. By the time his father, Gangadhar, took him to hospital, the boy had died. Gangadhar, a migrant worker, lives in Yerukula Basti in Bagh Amberpet with his family