Five days after two horses — which were allegedly used in an illegal horse racing racket — fell off the Andheri flyover in broad daylight and plunged to death, it has emerged that the police knew about the accident at the time it occurred on Sunday. This was exposed when Newsline accessed the log book of BMC’s disaster management cell that had received a call from the police control room about the animal deaths at 3 pm on Sunday. However, no police report has been filed so far on the illegal horse race and the horses’ death. The police have not initiated any inquiry into the incident too.

According to personnel of the BMC’s disaster management cell, it was the police control room that informed the BMC about the death of two horses. As pet the cell’s log book, it has got a call from the main police control room at 3 pm on Sunday stating that two horses had fallen off the flyover bridge on the Western Express Highway, near Centaur Hotel, Vile Parle East. The log book also says that the disaster management cell have contacted the Bombay SPCA Hospital at 3.04 pm and informed them about the incident. However, the police control room refused to confirm this.

On Tuesday, after a series of investigations, Newsline along with a representative of the Plant and Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), visited a site behind Hotel Leela Kempinski in Sahar Road, Andheri, which is suspected to be the area where the alleged owner of the horses lives.

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