A dog which belonged to India's best-known bandit has been released on £24 bail after nearly 11 years in custody.
The 13-year-old mongrel Itappa was not only a mascot for his master, Veerappan, but was skilled in sniffing out sandalwood trees in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu which his owner then cut down and sold.
Veerappan, wanted for 120 murders, kidnappings and killing hundreds of elephants for ivory, died in a police ambush in Oct 2004. Itappa was arrested nine years earlier with some of his master's gang.
He is seeing out his days in an animal care centre in Bangalore, where he is described as "a reformed character".
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