Police horse Shaktiman which got injured during the BJP's protest march has been given medical assistance in Dehradun. Sadanand Date, senior superintendent of police says the operation has been successful. The horse had multiple fractures, which will heal and his leg does not need to be amputated. The horse had a four-hour surgery.

The horse deployed as part of mounted police was injured during a protest march by the Bharatiya Janata Party to the state assembly in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on Monday with the ruling Congress alleging that it sustained injuries after being attacked by BJPs Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi, a charge denied by the opposition party.

The incident happened during the BJPs march against 'corruption and poor law and order' to the state assembly which was stopped at barricades put up by the Uttarakhand police near Ripsana bridge, a few metres from the state assembly premises.

Hours after the incident, two videos, one of them purportedly showing the horses broken hind leg and the other showing the BJP legislator from Mussoorie attacking the horse with a baton from the front, went viral sparking an allegation by Chief Minister Harish Rawats media in-charge Surendra Kumar that the animal had fallen a victim to Joshis cruelty.