Mysuru:  Waking up from its slumber after a woman was killed during a stray horses attack here in December last, officials and staff of Veterinary Dept. of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) had initiated ‘Operation Horse’ or ‘Operation Strays’ to capture stray horses, cattle, donkeys and buffaloes in city last year and even stopped the same after a few days.

Now, the stray horses are back again on city roads, causing inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians. About four to five stray horses were seen grazing on the footpath on SJCE Main Road on Saturday. These stray horses, after grazing for some time, came on the road all of a sudden and began to move haphazardly on the road creating a sense of fear among motorists and pedestrians.

A few said that the stray horses were seen on the same road yesterday besides stating that stray horses are seen frequently on the road and surrounding places.

As the density of traffic on this road is more, the presence of stray horses is causing a lot of inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians especially students who go to their colleges on the road daily. This may lead to accidents, which may lead to loss of human lives and injuries to people as well as horses.

The students have urged the MCC authorities to trace the owners of the stray horses and initiate action against them for letting their horses loose on the streets.

It may be recalled that fifty-year-old Parvathamma was killed when five stray horses attacked her at Gayathripuram on Dec.18, 2018 and 31-year-old Harish, a Marketing Executive and a resident of K.G. Koppal, was injured when a stray horse bit him near City Law Courts complex on Sept.6, 2018.

Apart from that, incidents of stray horses attacking the public had occurred on Devaraja Urs Road, Chamaraja Double Road and other places earlier. This had resulted in injuries to many people and damage to several vehicles.

Meanwhile, members of the public alleged that the MCC took up the operation to capture stray animals only on the following day of the incident and stopped.

They further said that capturing a few stray animals for namesake and imposing fines on the owners would not solve the problem besides stating that the MCC should take steps so that such incidents do not occur again.