In a bizarre court case, a dog has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for biting a child.
The incident occurred in the Punjab province of the country on Tuesday where Assistant Commissioner in Bhakkar’s Kalor vicinity pronounced death sentence on a dog, ARY News reported.
Assistant Commissioner Raja Muhammad Saleem said that the sentence was announced on humanitarian grounds.
“The dog injured the child hence it should be killed,” Saleem ruled.
The owner of the dog says the canine has already served a week-long jail sentence as a punishment in the same incident. Jamil says now punishing his pet again is against the rule of law.
He has filed an appeal with the Additional Deputy Commissioner against the peculiar punishment.
“The affected child’s family registered a case against my dog, following which it completed a one-week prison sentence. Any further punishment for it would be unfair,” the Geo News quoted the dog’s owner Jamil as saying.
An official was also instructed to check the dog’s registration, he said, stating that a case against the dog’s owner is in progress in a civil court.
Jamil added that he would knock on the doors of all courts to get justice for his pet.
