Mumbai, Sept. 10 -- Mumbai police have registered a case after six stray cats were found dead in Chembur, with the animals suspected to have been killed with a blunt object, officers said.

Police officers said the FIR was registered based on a complaint lodged by Rubina Pathan, a 53-year-old resident of the Panjrapole area in Govandi. "For the past six years she has also been feeding cats near her residence. On September 3, she found four cats dead in the vicinity and all of them had been killed by hitting them with some blunt and hard object on their heads," an officer said.

Police said they have sent the bodies to Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals in Parel to find out the exact cause of death.

"We have registered a case...