Bollywood mourns police horse Shaktimaan’s death

In a bizarre display of cruelty caught on video tape, Ganesh Joshi, the Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from Mussoorie, attacked and severely injured Shaktimaan in Dehradun during a BJP protest against the Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand on March 14.

Bollywood celebrities like Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor, Neha Dhupia and Amy Jackson have mourned the death of police horse Shaktimaan.

Shaktiman, the Uttarakhand police horse that was attacked during a BJP rally in March, died in Dehradun on Wednesday. (Vinay Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Days after it got a prosthetic limb, Shaktimaan, an Uttarakhand Police horse which lost a leg in an attack by a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator last month, died on Wednesday,

In a bizarre display of cruelty caught on video tape, Ganesh Joshi, the Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from Mussoorie, attacked and severely injured Shaktimaan in Dehradun during a BJP protest against the Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand on March 14.

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Here is what the celebs have to say:

Hema Malini: Shaktiman is no more -- a victim of brutality and cruelty, he was powerless to protect himself. What a tragedy.

Rishi Kapoor: If India has a conscience, this man must be tried. Whosoever this Ganesh Joshi is. Are deaf Political ears hearing?

Amy Jackson: RIP Shaktiman...You’ll be galloping through the clouds now.

Neha Dhupia: We are sorry Shaktiman ...U didn’t deserve this...It’s us...What’s the human race coming to. Disgraceful.

Riteish Deshmukh: RIP Shaktimaan Police Horse.

Ranvir Shorey: RIP, Shaktiman.

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