It is not just a story of animal neglect but one of appalling cruelty. Three pups, wrapped in a plastic bag bound with barbed wire, were pulled out from a trash-filled ditch in the IIT campus at Powai.

 The pups, barely a month old, were badly infested with maggots. Two of them died soon after their rescue by animal activists. The third, a male, is currently recuperating at a foster care with a maggot infection under one of his legs. This pup has survived horrible cruelty that only man is capable of  .

The campus student had heard a howling sound coming from the ditch and had dug into the trash and managed to pull out one pup through a gap in the barbed wire. He could not reach further down to rescue the other pups so he called animal activist.  An animal activist coordinated the six-hour rescue operation to pull out the pups from the ditch.