Rules on animals, get the details…
Wednesday, 9th June 2021
The Supreme Court said Monday that a provision in the 2017 ruling notified by the center that allows the confiscation of animals from traders and carriers while processing trials in cases under the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act is in violation of the rules the latter, who only allow such confiscation on the basis of a conviction.
He called on the government to change the rule or expect the court to be suspended. "Animals are a livelihood. We're not talking about cats and dogs. People live on their animals. You can't confiscate and keep them before humans are convicted.
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Your rules are contradicting itself. Either you change it or you change it. We. We will keep doing it, "observed the Chief Justice, SA Bobde, as he overheard a testimony from Buffalo dealers.
The charity questions the constitutional validity of the Rules for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Care and Care of Animals Owned by the Case), 2017 and the Rules for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulating Livestock Markets), 2 017, the 2017 rules allow one Judges to confiscate livestock from an owner who is prosecuted under the law and send them to health centers, gaushalas, etc.
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The Indian Express