Youth held in Narsingdi for throwing dog into river with brick tied to its neck

Police have arrested a youth named Mohammad Ali , 25, on charges of tying a brick around a dog's neck and throwing it into the river from the Nagriyakandi Bridge in Narsingdi city. He was arrested from the Kamargaon area adjacent to Nagriyakandi at 5pm on Thursday.

Police said that the youth had tied a brick around the dog's neck from the Nagriyakandi Bridge around 11:30am the previous day on Wednesday. A video of the incident later went viral on social media Facebook, and it came to the attention of the police, after which he was arrested from his own area on Thursday afternoon. The arrested Mohammad Ali is the son of Abdur Rab of Kamargaon area.

In the viral video, Mohammad Ali is seen standing naked with a dog on the Nagriyakandi Bridge. A whole brick is tied to the other end of the rope tied to the dog's neck. Three people, including a woman, are seen standing nearby. At one point, Mohammad Ali handed the brick-tied end of the rope to a person standing nearby and picked up the dog himself. Then, the two threw the dog and the brick into the river together. After falling into the water, the dog was seen looking around helplessly for a while, and then it slowly floated away.

The video was reportedly uploaded on Thursday morning from a Facebook ID called ‘Animal Community Welfare of Bangladesh’. It came to the attention of District Chhatra Dal President Siddiqur Rahman, whose home is also in the Nagriyakandi area. He ordered his workers to arrest the accused. In the afternoon, Mohammad Ali was brought to the Nagriyakandi Bridge and made to sit up by holding his ears while chanting the slogan ‘We are humans, not animals’ in front of hundreds of people. Later, when the matter was reported to the police, Sub-Inspector Noman Sadekin of Narsingdi Model Police Station went to the spot and took him to the police station.

Sub-Inspector Noman Sadekin said that a case against Mohammad Ali is underway at Narsingdi Model Police Station. He said that the other three people who were with him at the time of the incident will also be identified and brought to justice.