FIR Registered for Unlawful Relocation of Community Dogs and Paralysing a Puppy in Bahadurgarh, Following PETA India Intervention

After receiving information that several community dogs had been cruelly captured and unlawfully relocated and a puppy was paralysed after a heavy metal cage was apparently thrown onto him, PETA India worked with Shri Jai Bhagwan, Sub Inspector and in charge of the Sector 6 Police Station and local caregiver of these dogs Sachin Kumar to ensure that a first information report (FIR) was registered under relevant stringent sections of the law.

The illegal capture and relocation of 12 community dogs, including a lactating mother and her puppies, by Naresh Kumar, proprietor of BK Monkey Catching Company reportedly occurred on 11 March at Omaxe Society in Bahadurgarh on the instructions of the society’s residence management company Shanvi Management through their manager Vikram Yadav.

Upon learning about the unlawful relocation and dumping of dogs, the caregivers and local animal rights activists diligently searched for the dogs and found 9 dogs, including 2-month-old puppies and the paralysed puppy, some 35 kilometres away from their original location. Locals informed the activists that the puppy had allegedly been beaten, and then a heavy metal cage was thrown over the puppy’s delicate body, which resulted in complete paralysis of the hind legs.

An FIR was recently registered under Section 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and Section 11 (1) (a) and Section 38 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 cognisable offence and prescribes a punishment of imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with a fine, or with both.

Rule 11(19) of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023, permits the capture of community dogs only for the purpose of sterilization, vaccination and makes it illegal to relocate community animals. It states, “The dogs shall be released [after sterilisation] at the same place or locality from where they were captured.” The Hon’ble Supreme Court, in its order dated 22 August 2025, upheld the ABC Rules by reiterating that dogs shall be released back to their territories following the necessary procedures mandated in the ABC Rules, 2023.

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.”

Community dogs are often subjected to cruelty or struck by cars and commonly suffer from starvation, disease, or injury. Every year, many end up in animal shelters, where they languish in cages or kennels for lack of enough good homes. The solution is simple: sterilisation and adoption from the streets or shelters. Sterilising one female dog can prevent 67,000 births over six years, and sterilising one female cat can prevent 420,000 births over seven years.

PETA India urges local municipal bodies to promptly implement humane animal birth control as required by law to reduce human-animal conflict, and also urges the public to report cruelty to animals cases like these.