Stray dog damages gate at martyr Sukhdev’s ancestral house

The trust members rued negligence of the monument clerk for damage to the around 150-year- old wooden gate at martyr Sukhdev’s ancestral house

Even as members of Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar Memorial Trust have been raising a hue and cry over the deteriorating condition of the martyr’s ancestral house in Naughara Mohalla (near Chaura Bazar), a stray dog damaged one of the wooden gates at the house on Monday night.

Main gate of Martyr Sukhdev Thapar house damaged by stray dog in Ludhiana on Tuesday. (Gurpreet Singh/HT)

The trust members rued negligence of the monument clerk for damage to the around 150-year- old wooden gate, which he allegedly failed to check before leaving duty. The clerk, however, stated that the dog might have entered through a hole in the boundary wall behind the house.

The Trust has submitted a complaint with the archaeology department, which has recently commenced repairs at the house.