Six booked in Bhayander for cremating cat at civic facility

Six persons were booked for allegedly carrying out the last rites of a cat in a crematorium in Mira Bhayander in Thane district, a police official said on Thursday.The case was lodged under section 297 trespassing on burial places of Indian Penal Code on Wednesday on the complaint of officials from Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation MBMC, though no one has been arrested in the case, he said.The incident took place on December 22.

Six persons were booked for allegedly carrying out the last rites of a cat in a crematorium in Mira Bhayander in Thane district, a police official said on Thursday.

The case was lodged under section 297 (trespassing on burial places) of Indian Penal Code on Wednesday on the complaint of officials from Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC), though no one has been arrested in the case, he said.

''The incident took place on December 22. Two persons cremated their cat at the public facility. Six persons have been booked,'' the Bhayander police station official said.