Delhi Police have told a city court that the man who assaulted Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in August claimed he acted after a dream in which a dog standing beside a Shivling urged him to help suffering strays in the capital. The details appear in a 429-page chargesheet filed last month before Judicial Magistrate First Class Gaurav Goyal at Tis Hazari Court.

According to investigators, the accused, Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai Sakariya of Rajkot, also had a history of agitation over animal issues. The chargesheet notes that in May he sat “on a hunger strike in Ayodhya over the issue of monkeys,” clashed with temple guards and was detained by local police.

Police say Sakariya had been watching “many videos on Facebook” of protests related to stray dogs in Delhi and believed that people were “holdi

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