A magistrate's court in Mumbai has sentenced to four months' imprisonment a man whose pet dog had bitten a neighbour inside a lift of his residential building in Worli area of central Mumbai, reported the PTI.

The decision came seven years after the incident.

Accused Rishabh Patel (40) did not show much compassion to his pet Husky dog too, the court said in its ruling on May 21, as per the PTI.