West Siang: FIR Registered Against Hanging and Beating a Dog to Death, Following PETA India Complaint   

For Immediate Release:

10 September 2026

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 West Siang — In response to a deeply disturbing video widely circulating on social media showing the hanging and beating of a dog to death, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) worked with the Superintendent of Police, West Siang, to ensure that a first information report (FIR) was registered under the relevant provisions of the law. In the video, a white dog is seen being hanged to death with a rope tied tightly around the neck. While one man hangs onto the rope, another man repeatedly strikes the dog with a stick. 

An FIR was registered under Sections 3(5) and 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960. Section 325 of the BNS, 2023, categorises mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming, or rendering useless of any animal as a cognizable offence and prescribes a punishment of imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with a fine, or with both. Section 3(5) of BNS states that when several persons do a criminal act in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of them is liable for that act as if it were done by them alone. 

“Violence against an animal often leads to crimes against other animals or humans,” says PETA India Lead Cruelty Response Officer Sreekutty Bennet. “We commend Shri Kardak Riba, the Superintendent of Police, West Siang and Shri Bomken Basar, the Superintendent of Police, Kurung Kumey, for directing the registration of the FIR and sending a clear message that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated, helping keep societies safe.” 

PETA India recommends that perpetrators of animal abuse undergo a psychiatric evaluation and receive counselling, as abusing animals indicates a deep psychological disturbance. Research shows that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals are often repeat offenders who move on to hurting other animals, including humans. A study published in Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal stated, “Those who engage in cruelty to animals to animals were [three] times more likely to commit other crimes, including murder, rape, robbery, assault, harassment, threats, and drug/substance abuse.” 

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” –opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.  

For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram. 

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