Jose Mavely doesn't like strays

For close to two decades, Mavely has been hailed as a social worker across Kerala, championing the cause of the destitute. But that image now stands in stark contrast to the picture of him as a 'dog-k

Nikita Puri  November 5, 2016 Last Updated at 00:19 IST

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In the last week of October, a distinctly upsetting scene played out in the coastal town of Varkala in Kerala. The police had come to arrest Jose Mavely, a 66-year-old who was accused of orchestrating the culling of nearly 40 stray dogs. But local residents wouldn't let the police take away Mavely, or any of the men who carried out the killings. "I am here because they (the locals) asked me to come. They are upset and angry," Mavely had told reporters at the scene. The situation was tense because a 90-year-old man who was sleeping on his veranda had been mauled to death by ...

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Jose Mavely doesn't like strays