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  • Four held for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in Maharashtra’s Sahyadri Tiger Reserve

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Four individuals have been arrested for allegedly raping a Bengal monitor lizard in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) in Maharashtra, a forest official stated on Wednesday.

    The incident, which occurred at Gothane village in Ratnagiri district, got here to gentle days after the 4 accused have been booked for illegally coming into Chandoli National Park, which is a part of the reserve, with one in every of them carrying a gun for searching, he stated.

    The accused have been being probed after they have been booked on March 31 for illegally coming into the forest when the crime got here to gentle, the official stated.

    The STR is unfold over 4 districts of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Ratnagiri.

    The accused have been recognized as Sandeep Tukaram Pawar, Mangesh Kamtekar, Akshay Kamtekar and Ramesh Ghag, he stated.

    “During the investigation, the forest officers discovered that the accused had allegedly raped a Bengal monitor lizard.

    Their act was additionally recorded in a cell phone of one of many accused individuals,” he stated.

    “We have recovered all the related evidence from the accused and they were granted forest department custody initially, but are out on bail now,” the forest official stated.

    They have been requested to mark their presence earlier than the forest officer, who’s probing the case, each Monday, he stated.

    “The four accused have been booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,” area director of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), Nanasaheb Ladkat, stated.

  • In UP’s Baghpat, the bounds of cruelty crossed, animal raping… Police registered a case

    An odd incident has come to the fore in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. Here a younger man has dedicated the incident of rape with an animal. The animal proprietor has given a grievance to the police accusing the youth of rape. A youth of a village in Chhaprauli police station space has given a grievance on the police station. He has mentioned within the grievance that on the night time of August 9, at round 1.15 pm, when he went within the circle to see the animals in his home, he suspected that somebody was within the circle. When he lit the battery, he noticed a neighbor raping a buffalo youngster as quickly as he lit the battery. Corona News: Corona instances elevated as soon as once more in UP, 4 instances got here to the fore in Lucknow. Is. On which the police have registered a case. Chhaprauli SHO Vinod Kumar mentioned {that a} case has been registered in opposition to the accused beneath sections 377 of IPC and animal cruelty. Police group is engaged to arrest the accused. The accused will probably be arrested quickly. .

  • Cruelty to animals: HC asks Kerala govt to provide district-wise particulars of animal welfare organisations

    By Express News Service
    KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Monday directed the state authorities to provide the district-wise particulars of animal welfare organisations, each state-owned in addition to on the personal possession.

    A division bench comprising Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Gopinath P issued the order when the suo motu case registered to watch the steps taken in opposition to the cases of cruelty to animals got here up for listening to.

    A report was submitted by the Amici Curiae – Senior Advocate Ramesh Babu and Advocate Suresh Menon – suggesting the structure of the state animal welfare board. They instructed an apex committee and varied sub-committees to handle the totally different points relating to animal welfare throughout the state. The apex committee comprising a retired choose of the Kerala High Court as chairperson and 19 different members nominated by the federal government and the court docket. The sub-committees might be constituted to handle the problems relating to animal contraception, the functioning of slaughterhouses and others. 

    The report additionally instructed captive elephant committee monitor the welfare of captive elephants. The court docket requested the state to think about the report as a suggestion and are available again to the court docket with their views concerning the structure of the animal welfare board.

    As regards the alleged capturing and culling of road canine within the Thrikkakara municipality space, the municipality submitted that they don’t have any position to play within the incident. The police have registered instances in opposition to a number of individuals and a junior well being inspector hooked up to the municipality. The court docket directed the municipality to determine areas the place road canine might be rehabilitated and sheltered. The municipality might not have the ability to discharge their whole obligation as regards the upkeep of such shelter by spending funds at this stage. The court docket additionally explored the opportunity of figuring out animal welfare teams that may have the ability to utilise their sources to catch, relocate and shelter the road canine. M Umadevi, Counsel for Daya animal welfare organisation submitted that it is able to present shelter to road canine and sought time to establish the holding capability of the shelters maintained by the organisation.

    The court docket posted the listening to of the case to Friday.

  • Beach barbarity: Three arrested for torturing canine to dying

    By Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/KOCHI: A day after a video of a pet canine being tortured to dying shocked the state, the police arrested three individuals, together with a minor boy. Sunil, 22, Sylvester, 20, and a 17-year-old boy — who fatally bludgeoned the canine that had strayed into the Adimalathura seaside on Monday — had been charged below the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and Indian Penal Code part pertaining to maiming of animals. 

    Meanwhile, the Kerala High Court has additionally initiated suo motu proceedings within the incident and can think about the case on Friday. The canine named ‘Bruno’ of Labrador breed was tortured reportedly after it was discovered resting below the boat owned by Sunil. The video exhibits the trio beating up the canine utilizing a stick after hanging it on the boat with a fishing hook pierced to its chest. The episode discreetly shot by the boy by some means acquired leaked on social media and the barbarity triggered an enormous public outcry, following which the police registered a case.

    The canine’s corpse was thrown into sea by the accused regardless of objections from native residents, the police mentioned. Christurajan, proprietor of the canine, resides near the seaside, and he alongside together with his brother Sony used to deal with the animal.

    According to the police, Sunil had some private enmity with Christurajan. Recently, the canine was allegedly attacked by Sunil utilizing a fishing hook for resting below his boat berthed on the seaside. Following this, Sunil had an altercation with Christurajan and had reportedly warned him that he shouldn’t see the canine on the seaside once more.

    On Friday, a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice A Ok Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Gopinath P will think about the case. The court docket initiated the suo motu proceedings whereas contemplating a letter despatched by Justice A Ok Jayasankaran Nambiar as a public curiosity litigation.

    ‘Judiciary can’t stay passive spectator’ 

    The letter said that it was a matter of concern that many such incidents have been reported by the media over the previous few years, and whereas every such occasion is deplorable in itself, the sheer variety of such circumstances and the frequency of their prevalence leads one to suspect that such cruelty is now turning ordinary.  “As people, our approach to animal rights has been far from desirable. Time has now come to goad the state and its instrumentalities into taking affirmative action to safeguard the rights of animals. In a democratic republic such as ours, the judiciary cannot afford to remain a passive spectator to executive and legislative inaction in the matter of protection of animal rights,” said the letter.