INDIANAMERICAN HOTELIER CHATWAL CHARGED FOR TRYING TO SET DOGS AFIRE

Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal has been charged with criminal mischief for allegedly trying to set two dogs on fire. Chatwal, 44, turned himself in to the police on Tuesday and was charged with criminal mischief, torture and injuring of animals, reckless endangerment and arson. The charges stem from an October 7 incident in which Chatwal allegedly got into an argument with a woman walking the dogs outside his home in the city. Chatwal, accused of allegedly pulling out a lighter and aerosol can to hurt the two dogs, pleaded not guilty to the charges during his appearance in a Manhattan court on Tuesday.