Preeti Dhawan, a resident of Pitampura in north West Delhi, is facing constant harassment, threats for feeding around 90 street/stray dogs. Rather than being recognised for feeding hungry stray dogs, the good Samaritan is being hounded by the locals who are up in arms against her and also blaming her for encouraging the scourge of stray dogs in the locality.
Dhawan has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) with the Maurya Enclave Police station against Vikram Malhotra, Sunny Malhotra, Pran Nath Malhotra , Gaurav Verma and Sidharth Verma for attacking and abusingon January 30, while two of the harassers have been charged under sections 506/ 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Dhawan is now facing a new challenge as entry of dogs has been completely restricted in the society.
Talking to The Pioneer, she said that a plan has been made to relocate the street dogs. " On January 21, when I returned home with my family, we saw stones outside my house which they had used to target dogs," she said, "When I objected, they started abusing me, I prepared a video to submit it to RWA president however, one of them also teased me."
Preeti, a complainant, who lives in QD block of the colony, said that people there have planned to feed poison to stray dogs.
Unwilling to give up her fight to save the street dogs, Dhawan has approached NGOs and has written to Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi.
"For this I have been facing constant persecution, threats and harrasment from my neighbours and residents and already three cases have been registered against them resulting in FIRs against three and two of them have been charged as well," she said. "Now these people are taking their revenge against me and they have put gates in all four corners of my colony, without any permission from any local body, so that the dogs cannot come in to their locality to have their food and are also having some evil plans to relocate the dogs," she added.
Explaining the condition of dogs, she added, "The dogs are suffering as the guards have also been ordered to shoo them away or beat them with sticks. Our RWA president and neighbors order guards to beat dogs one dog has a big lump on his leg guard beat the dog it's high time."
