Man bludgeons beagle to spite wife after tiff
A.Selvaraj @timesgroup.com
Chennai:26.09.2018
A 41-year-old resident of Velachery, incensed at his wife after an argument, fatally bludgeoned her pet beagle with the metal handle of a mop in their house on Saturday night.
Police arrested S Jagannathan, a Sri Lankan national, on a complaint by his wife J Selvi, 35, after the dog died of multiple neck injuries in a pet clinic near the couple’s house on Monday morning.
Investigators said Jagannathan admitted, during interrogation, to the attack on the dog, saying he intended to kill the animal to spite his wife. He used a strip of cloth to muzzle the dog before clubbing it repeatedly with the handle of a toilet mop, they said.
“Jagannathan attacked the dog when Selvi left for her sister’s house in Thiruvanmiyur after the couple had a spat on Saturday evening,” an investigating officer said.
SOFT TARGET: S Jagannathan used a strip of cloth to muzzle the dog before clubbing it with the steel handle of a mop
‘My husband didn’t like dogs, would often beat it’
Selvi, who runs a beauty parlour out of the ground floor of the couple’s house on 2nd Main Road in Sarathi Nagar, Velachery, returned home on Sunday morning to find the battered six-year-old beagle she called Burmi whimpering softly in a bloodstained passageway.
“I knew right away that my husband had tried to kill the dog,” the officer quoted Selvi as saying. “So without saying a word to him, I picked up Burmi and rushed her to a pet clinic nearby.”
A veterinarian at the clinic called her on Monday to say the dog was dead, Selvi said. She lodged a complaint against with the Velachery police station. Police picked up Jagannathan, who runs a shop that irons clothes next to his wife’s beauty parlour, from the couple’s house.
“Selvi married Jagannathan a couple of years ago after divorcing her first husband, with whom she had two children. The children live in Trichy with Selvi’s parents,” the officer said. “Jagannathan came to TN from Jaffna around 25 years ago, during the civil war in Sri Lanka, and settled in Chennai.”
Jagannathan did not like dogs and would often lash out at his wife’s beagle, a small scent hound bred to hunt hare, after the couple had a fight, the officer said.
A.Selvaraj @timesgroup.com
Chennai:26.09.2018
A 41-year-old resident of Velachery, incensed at his wife after an argument, fatally bludgeoned her pet beagle with the metal handle of a mop in their house on Saturday night.
Police arrested S Jagannathan, a Sri Lankan national, on a complaint by his wife J Selvi, 35, after the dog died of multiple neck injuries in a pet clinic near the couple’s house on Monday morning.
Investigators said Jagannathan admitted, during interrogation, to the attack on the dog, saying he intended to kill the animal to spite his wife. He used a strip of cloth to muzzle the dog before clubbing it repeatedly with the handle of a toilet mop, they said.
“Jagannathan attacked the dog when Selvi left for her sister’s house in Thiruvanmiyur after the couple had a spat on Saturday evening,” an investigating officer said.
SOFT TARGET: S Jagannathan used a strip of cloth to muzzle the dog before clubbing it with the steel handle of a mop
‘My husband didn’t like dogs, would often beat it’
Selvi, who runs a beauty parlour out of the ground floor of the couple’s house on 2nd Main Road in Sarathi Nagar, Velachery, returned home on Sunday morning to find the battered six-year-old beagle she called Burmi whimpering softly in a bloodstained passageway.
“I knew right away that my husband had tried to kill the dog,” the officer quoted Selvi as saying. “So without saying a word to him, I picked up Burmi and rushed her to a pet clinic nearby.”
A veterinarian at the clinic called her on Monday to say the dog was dead, Selvi said. She lodged a complaint against with the Velachery police station. Police picked up Jagannathan, who runs a shop that irons clothes next to his wife’s beauty parlour, from the couple’s house.
“Selvi married Jagannathan a couple of years ago after divorcing her first husband, with whom she had two children. The children live in Trichy with Selvi’s parents,” the officer said. “Jagannathan came to TN from Jaffna around 25 years ago, during the civil war in Sri Lanka, and settled in Chennai.”
Jagannathan did not like dogs and would often lash out at his wife’s beagle, a small scent hound bred to hunt hare, after the couple had a fight, the officer said.
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