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A video has surfaced showing a mob of 'animal activists'. On Saturday 22 April, three men were arrested in Kalkaji area in New Delhi for transporting buffaloes in a truck after
they were roughed up by members of an animal rights group. They were alleged to be members of an NGO called People For Animals which was headed by Union Minister Maneka Gandhi. However,
Gandhi’s office denied the allegations and said the men involved including Gaurav Gupta were no longer PFA members but had been warned about taking the law in their own hands. Her office
added they were no longer part of the organisation. Now, another video has surface which was shot on April 2, 2017 when a mob pulled out the drivers and their associates, and questioned
them in the presence of a police official who sat on his motorcycle watching the drama unfold. A voice in the mob can be heard saying: “_Ek__ do truck nikal gaye. Tum toh bach gaye. Pehle
walo ke toh sar faad diya tha_.” (Some trucks have gone ahead. You guys have been spared, earlier we had thrashed them) Another person in the mob can be heard saying, that: “Gaurav (Gupta)
will file a case. I’ve made a PRC call. You also log one.” Watch the full video below: [embedded content] Cops take away the truck [embedded content] A man was arrested on Monday in
connection with an alleged assault on three persons who were transporting buffaloes in a truck in southeast Delhi's Kalkaji area on Saturday night. Police said 32-year-old Shashank
Sharma, a resident of Rohini who rents out school vans, was arrested this morning. Sharma claimed to be a member of the People For Animals (PFA), an NGO founded and chaired by Union minister
Maneka Gandhi. He told police he saw the truck near Dhaula Kuan and started following it in his car as it was being driven rashly and foul smell was emanating from it. "He intercepted
the truck near Kalkaji temple," said a senior police officer. We have gone through his call records and it is clear that he had called alleged PFA member Gaurav Gupta, who came there
along with a few other animal rights activists. However, he has claimed that he was not involved in the attack on the trio. Gaurav, meanwhile, is expected to join the probe tomorrow and
police are hoping that he will be able to shed more light on the sequence of events. The other persons, who were allegedly involved in the attack, have been asked to join the investigation.
Rizwan, Ashu and Kamil, who were assaulted, were arrested yesterday and later released on bail. They have claimed that the attackers snatched their cell phones and Rs 6,000. Police said they
would verifying their claims if they give a supplementary statement about their cell phones and money being snatched. The trio is also claiming that they were attacked by around 15-20 men
and in case these are found to be true and are given in a supplementary statement to us, we might add more sections to the FIR, added the officer. Following the incident, two FIRs were
registered -- one against the three men for transporting cattle in an inhumane manner and another against those who assaulted them. The trio were booked for mischief by killing or maiming
cattle and under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act as they were carrying more number of animals in the truck than rules permit. The men had legal transit papers
for transporting the animals. The second case of voluntarily causing hurt and wrongful restraint was registered against unidentified members of the PFA, according to police officers. The
PFA had denied any association with the incident. Police were verifying whether the assailants had any link to the animal rights body. _With inputs from agencies _