Cops to trace former minister’s missing dog

AGRA: After successful recovery of cabinet minister Azam Khan’s buffaloes, police, now, have been tasked with tracing the missing dog of former union minister and Agra MP Ram Shankar Katheria.

Kalu, the one-and-a-half year old Labrador, went missing three days ago. After several failed attempts to find the dog, Mridula Katheria, wife of the BJP leader, lodged a complaint with the SP (city), Susheel Ghule, on Friday.

Katheria resides on Khandari premises of Agra university and has two Labradors – Kalu and Bhoora. “Kalu has been a part of our family. He went missing three days ago. We tried to trace it but failed. Left with no choice, we had to seek help from Agra police,” said the BJP leader’s wife, while talking to newsmen at Hari Parvat police station.

“If Uttar Pradesh police can find stolen buffaloes for cabinet minister Mohd Azam Khan, why can’t they trace my dog,” she said. She said her family was missing Kalu and the other dog Bhoora had not eaten anything for the last three days. She said that the missing puppy was two feet high and black in colour.

Ghule said the police would take appropriate action in this connection. The minister’s wife, however, refused to comment when asked if such complaints would not add to the burden on police, who were trying to work out cases of serious nature.

In February 2014, seven buffaloes were stolen from the farmhouse of senior minister Azam Khan in Rampur. Three policemen were removed for dereliction of duty.