pune prominent animal rights activists from the city will march to raviwar peth police chowkey around 4pm on sunday to protest against the unsatisfactory investigations into the acid attack on two stray dogs on may 29 on the night of may 29 unidentified persons allegedly threw acid on two stray dogs in raviwar peth the assailants fled the scene and have not been identified since the dogs were found in a severely burnt condition by a local resident praful tigale who took them to the blue cross animal shelter in mundhwa currently the dogs are at the blue cross rescue centre in a critical condition but activists are planning to shift them to the bhugaon animal rescue centre where better treatment facilities are availabletigale had also lodged a complaint with the faraskhana police station which includes ravivar peth in its jurisdiction police registered a first information report fir on may 30 under section 428 of the indian penal code which awards a twoyear jail term or a fine or both for intentionally maiming or killing animalshowever even after twelve days of filing the fir no investigation was done let alone identifying the suspects if this was a person attacked with acid we are pretty sure there would have been some form of action we think that action is not being taken due to pressure from local goons and politicians who might be protecting the suspects a citybased animal rights activist pooja salunke saidamit shah from prani seva sanstha a citybased animal rights nongovernment organisation said the acid was so corrosive that large parts of the dogs skin peeled off it also affected the inner flesh and organs of the dogs in fact the condition of one of the dogs is so bad that a leg needs to be amputatedin response to this police say that investigations are on prima facie it looks like a local resident was irritated by the barking and attacked the dogs an outsiders involvement also can be considered as there are no cctv cameras no footage of the incident exists but our investigations are on senior police inspector of the faraskhana police station rekha salunkhe saidprominent animal rights activists in the city will march to the raviwar peth police chowky on sunday afternoon to protest against unsatisfactory investigation into the acid attack on stray dogs in the areaanimal rights activists say that on the night of may 29 unidentified persons allegedly threw acid on two stray dogs in the raviwar peth area of the city the assailants allegedly fled the scene and have not been identified since the attacked dogs remained unattended for some while after which a local resident praful tigale found the injured and severely burnt animals took them to the blue cross animal shelter in mundhwa in his van tigale also complained about the incident to the faraskhana police station which includes the ravivar peth area in its jurisdiction the police registered a first information report fir on may 30 under section 428