The case against one of the men charged with last year’s burning of an African green monkey came to an end in the District “F” Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Rico Jamar Maynard, a 31-year-old mechanic, of Airy Hill, St Joseph, pleaded guilty to the charge that he wantonly and cruelly abused and caused unnecessary suffering to an African Green monkey, in contravention of the Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act, between …
Amendments proposed include prohibiting caging of birds, recognising animals as ‘living’ beings and not objects
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has submitted its proposals for the revision of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960, to the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI).
Amendments proposed include replacing the pronoun “it” with “he” or “she” when referring to animals as a first step towards recognising them as living, feeling beings, and not objects. PETA India wants the Act to be, at minimum, less speciesist (i.e. less exploitative of animals) than it is now.
Other recommendations include increasing penalties for cruelty to animals to a range between ₹25,000 and ₹1 lakh and up to five years of imprisonment. For a cognisable offence or a second non-cognisable offence, the group also recommends seizure of the person’s animal and preventing him or her from owning or working with any other animal.
Police have booked the boy under Section 429 of the IPC and section 11(1)(a) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. (Representative image)
MUMBAI: A 17-year-old collegian who is to appear for his HSC exams this year has been booked by the Santacruz police station for brutally beating a local community dog to death, and also gouging its eyes out in a moment of manic violence.
Activists of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA India) had contacted senior Mumbai Police officials earlier this week in order to get the shocking offence registered. A local source had informed us that a teenager had cruelly hit a dog at Gazdhar Bandh area of Santacruz (west) earlier this week and had also gouged out both his eyes. After getting hold of the victim dog s photos from the spot and a video, we had contacted the additional commissioner of police (western region) Sandeep Karnik, as well as the senior police inspector of Santacruz police, Dnyaneshwar Ganore, in
Screenshot of CCTV footage
MUMBAI: An Andheri (east) based finance consultant has been booked by the MIDC police for mercilessly hitting a local community dog with a rod, which was also captured by a CCTV camera in his society. Animal activists of Pal Adoption and Rescue Group helped an animal lover to lodge the FIR. We got to know earlier this week that a local resident of Shantinagar cooperative housing society in Andheri (east), identified as Mahesh Shetye who is in his early 30 s, had cruelly beaten a dog for no apparent reason. In the video footage it can be seen that Shetye stopped hitting the dog only after it collapsed and fainted on being hit on the head. The dog is friendly and not aggressive at all, said Pranav Kulkarni, a member of Pal Adoption and Rescue Group. He added that an unidentified person had earlier handed over the rod to Shetye at the time of the incident.