PETA India Director Experimented On in Demand for Rescue of 1200+ Beagles and Other Animals Imprisoned and Poisoned at Palamur Biosciences

Following an explosive whistleblower-led exposé by PETA India that revealed egregious cruelty and neglect of dogs, monkeys and other animals at Telangana-based Palamur Biosciences, on 29^th August a group of ‘scientists’ confined PETA India Director, Poorva Joshipura, in a restraint chair and forced her to undergo the same cruel procedures that real animals are subjected to in laboratories. PETA India’s aim is to urge the Committee for the Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CCSEA) to facilitate the rescue of the 1200+ beagles, monkeys, cows, pigs and other animals at Palamur Biosciences—a recommendation made in a detailed report by CCSEA-appointed inspectors submitted to the agency on 17 June.

Among the animals imprisoned at Palamur Biosciences are 73 beagles who are no longer used for breeding or experiments, that the facility itself has marked as for ‘rehabilitation’, but that so far the CCSEA has not ordered to be rescued and that Palamur Biosciences has refused to let go despite offers from NGOs to facilitate the dogs’ care, rehoming and adoption into loving homes.

The CCSEA-appointed inspectors’ report submitted to the agency on 17 June documented that the facility confined far more dogs than were approved by CCSEA and couldn’t provide an inventory of any animals; animals were reused frequently in painful experiments in violation of CCSEA guidelines; dogs, minipigs, and cows were in poor condition, yet Palamur could provide no suitable medical records; animals were experimented on without adequate pain management procedures; and animals were killed without first being sedated; and other examples of cruelty and mismanagement. The report concludes, ‘The operational deficiencies observed at PBPL [Palamur Biosciences] are not isolated incidents but indicative of entrenched structural, procedural and ethical failures. The scale and severity of non-compliances documented during the inspection raise significant concerns regarding the facility’s adherence to established standards of animal welfare and regulatory accountability.’