Gurugram Forest Division Books Man for Illegal Sale of Parakeets After PETA India Complaint, Birds Rescued 

For Immediate Release:

16 December 2025

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Sanskriti Bansore; [email protected]  

Gurugram – Following a concerned citizen’s report about the illegal sale of Alexandrine parakeets in the market area of Sector 28, Gurugram, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) worked with the Gurugram Forest Division to rescue the birds and get a preliminary offence report (POR) registered against the alleged offender. 

Photos and videos of the parakeets and their rescue are available upon request.

Eight of the Alexandrine Parakeets, a species protected under Schedule II of Wild Life (Protection) Act (WPA), 1972, were found confined in small, crowded cages. Additionally, six more birds were found dead and discarded in the nearby garbage area, reportedly by the same man. 

The eight surviving parakeets underwent health checks and were subsequently released into nature the next day. A preliminary offence report (POR) has been registered by the Gurugram forest division under Sections 9, 39, and 51 of the WPA, 1972. Buying, selling, or possessing this species is an offence punishable by a fine of up to Rs 1 lakh or a jail term of up to three years, or both. 

“PETA India is grateful to the Gurugram Forest Division of the Haryana Forest Department, particularly Range Forest Officer Shri Krishan Yadav, for promptly rescuing the parakeets from lives of imprisonment,” says PETA India Emergency Response Coordinator Divya Chavan. “PETA India urges anyone who learns of cruelty to animals to report it to a local animal protection group and the police or, when wildlife is involved, the forest department.” 

In the illegal bird trade, countless birds are taken from their families and denied everything natural and important to them so that they can be sold as pets or used as bogus fortune-tellers. Fledglings are often snatched from their nests, and others panic as they’re caught in traps or nets that can seriously injure or kill them as they struggle to break free. Captured birds are packed into small boxes, and an estimated 60% of them die in transit from broken wings and legs, thirst, or sheer panic. Those who survive face a bleak life in captivity, suffering from malnutrition, loneliness, depression, and stress. 

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 Facebook, Instagram, or X. 

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