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Pigeon killer gets a clean chit

PTI / Jun 6, 2005, 16:09 IST
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The case filed against jail officials for the the killing of over 100 pigeons in prison, has been closed.
Pigeon killer gets a clean chit
GHAZIABAD: The case filed against Dasna Jail officials following the killing of over 100 pigeons in prison premises allegedly at the behest of Jail Superintendent Rajesh Kesharwani has been closed.
Over 80 birds were allegedly killed when senior jail officers in Ghaziabad ordered their necks to be snapped.
The motive behind the heinous act was to pressurise a convict, Chandervir lodged in the jail to confess to his involvement in the murder of another prisoner.
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Chandervir had been feeding the birds for the past six years and had grown attached to them.
"There is no substance in the matter," investigating officer Mukesh Gautam said in his Final Report.
The report gave a clean chit to Kesharwani and Jailer RC Singh against ...
...whom an FIR was lodged on the direction of Chief Judicial Magistrate VS Patel following a petition by animal rights NGO People For Animals, sources said.
PFA had alleged that Kesharwani had on May 18 ordered that pigeons reared by an undertrial Chandraveer Chaudhary in the jail premises be killed.

According to PFA, Kesharwani wanted to pressurise Chandraveer to confess to the killing of another inmate Qamruddin on May 2.
Meanwhile, in a letter to UP Chief Secretary Neera Yadav, former Union Minister and PFA President Maneka Gandhi has demanded immediate removal of Kesharwani and a fair probe into the incident.
She also demanded adequate security for PFA activists who were allegedly being threatened by Kesharwani.
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