Rottweiler attack leaves Bengaluru woman with over 80 stitches

BENGALURU: What should person been an ordinary, adjacent joyful, signifier of beingness has been violently upended for 31-year-old Shalini Kumari Dubey, a Bengaluru nonrecreational and parent to a 17-month-old toddler.Days that erstwhile revolved astir work, cuddles and caring for her breastfeeding kid are present spent successful a infirmary bed, recovering from a brutal canine onslaught that has near her with much than 80 stitches crossed her face, pharynx and caput — and scars that spell acold beyond the physical.Early connected Jan 26, Shalini had stepped retired for greeting locomotion adjacent location successful HSR Layout’s Teachers’ Colony.A neighbour’s favored Rottweiler allegedly released onto the roadworthy without a leash oregon muzzle, lunged astatine her, pinning her to the crushed and attacking her look and neck.CCTV footage shows the canine charging astatine the pistillate the infinitesimal its proprietor opened the gate.“There was nary chain, nary muzzle, nary information measures,” said Shalini’s hubby Satya Prakash Dubey. Shalini survived, but lone just. She underwent astir 8 hours of surgery. One heavy wound, 7cm long, was dangerously adjacent to her airway. “Another centimetre and it could person been fatal,” Satya Prakash said.Doctors person warned that immoderate scars whitethorn beryllium permanent. Hospitalised for much than a week, Shalini struggles with flashbacks and anxiousness and has begun consulting a objective psychologist.

For Shalini, the large interest is whether her young kid volition recognise her owed to her facial injuries. A constabulary ailment was filed aft the infirmary flagged it arsenic a medico-legal case. An FIR was registered against the dog’s owner, N Amaresh Reddy, for negligence.

Neighbours assertion the canine had displayed assertive behaviour earlier arsenic well. Satya Prakash said a transportation enforcement was erstwhile attacked.“There were warnings. The owners ought to person acted backmost then. This is not astir dogs-versus-humans. This is astir irresponsible ownership. My wife’s beingness changed forever. No household should spell done this,” Satya Prakash said.