Animal Cruelty

October 30, 2021

INTRODUCTION

As it has been rightly said by Ricky Gervais, ‘The greatest privilege that comes with freedom of speech is using your voice for those who don’t have one’. Why humans are called greedy and selfish when it comes to their needs and wants? We are the voice for them and harming those means taking a war with the ecosystem. The rise in the number of cruelty incidents towards animals, such as throwing a dog from the rooftop, burning animals alive, using animal’s skin for the textile industry, and the cosmetic industry has compelled animal rights activists. Animals in India involve a non-human status, wherein they are treated as a commodity or property. Animal brutality is maltreatment toward or disregard of an animal.

CASE LAW

In Animal Welfare Board of India Vs. A. Nagaraja & Ors.It was held that Bulls must not be used in any kind of races or bullfights and Right to Life under Article 21 shall be extended to animals too. And as far as their freedoms are concerned, they must be protected by the Government and Animal Welfare Board.
Bombay High Court in People for Ethical Treatment of Animals Vs. UOI3 said that if any film wants to use an animal for public viewing has to issue a certificate from the Animal Welfare Board stating the provisions of the Performing Animals Rules, 2001 have been duly met. This ruling safeguards animals from abuses, being exposed to loud noises, beaten or kept without food and water.

LEGISLATIONS

After the enforcement of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA), 1960, there have been a dreadful rise in the cases of animal cruelty. Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 was also established for the protection of animal species. There are many other laws made to crackdown the danger against animal cruelty for their safety, protection and punishment in cases of animal cruelty such as Article 48A and 51A(g) of the Indian Constitution, Section 428 and section 429 under Indian Penal Code, but PCA Act, 1960 and Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 are the most supreme ones. The major escape clause which needs an immediate action is the amount of fine that is imposed on any offence under PCA Act is very less.

In Uttar Pradesh, a commendable initiative has been taken towards the prevention of cow slaughter. It provides for the protection of cows and to prevent their slaughter, also, providing for rigorous imprisonment of 10 years along with a fine of Rs. 5lakh.

SOLUTIONS

The initial step ought to be to teach kids to have regard for animals and treat them kindly. We can forestall pitilessness to animals by requesting stricter laws for the assurance of animals. Animal and non-animal social sectors must recognize their intersectionality and work together. Government assistance of animals is also getting seriously undermined as there is a non-attendance of a legitimate state-level body to screen and implement creature government assistance laws and to bring creature government assistance ideas into the arrangement of the state government. Another recommendation to upgrade the system is to set up and fortify the general public for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an NGO that can work in each state freely with no impedance of the state. There is similarly a need to guarantee that the State Animal Welfare Board runs suitably, considering the way that in numerous states there is no such load up. These little changes by different gatherance can change the circumstance for animals in India, and no mercilessness of any sort would be accessible in our overall population.

CONCLUSION

The legislature has a basic limit, i.e., on the off chance that the controls for such kinds of offence can be made stricter, at that point, everybody will endeavor to admission the well and won’t viciously murder faultless animals. The government should provide food and shelter to street dogs.
In 2011, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was updated and renamed as Indian Animal Welfare Act as a need was felt to change the old law. Despite such an enormous number of laws, the drive will simply come when people cooperate with each living animal’s good judgment, qualification bodies and affiliations and attempt to improvise the pitiable condition of animals.

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