The police have booked eight people allegedly involved in two separate cases of animal cruelty. In one of the incidents, 22 puppies near a housing society were thrown into a remote area, while eight other puppies were poisoned, of which, five died. In another incident, over cats were allegedly thrown away, of which, one of them was pregnant.

On Wednesday, Mitesh Jain, the Honorary District Animal Welfare Officer of the Animal Welfare Board of India, received a call from Kunal Ghate, a resident of Virar. Ghate said that someone had poisoned eight puppies near the building. While five puppies had already died, the rest were admitted to the Karuna Trust clinic.