Jamshedpur: GRUESOME Rooster Sacrifice Practice Involving Ripping Apart Live Birds Prevented Following PETA India Intervention 

For Immediate Release:

28 January 2026

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East Singhbhum — After being alerted to the horrific practice of Gram Puja in Lal Bhatta, occurring annually in the month of January, during which live roosters are torn apart alive by a mob after being tossed into the air, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) worked with the East Singhbhum Police to ensure the illegal event was prevented.

PETA India worked with senior police officials of East Singhbhum district to ensure that a notice was issued to the organisers of the festival, directing them to refrain from any form of cruelty to animals, including animal sacrifice. Police personnel were also deployed at the venue to monitor the situation and prevent any violations.

A video of the gruesome rooster sacrifice from 2025 is available upon request. 

“PETA India commends East Singhbhum police, especially the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), East Singhbhum, Shri Piyush Pandey, IPS, for taking swift action to ensure the illegal sacrifice did not take place,” says PETA India Senior Cruelty Response Coordinator, Sinchana Subramanyan. “Just as human sacrifice is now recognised and condemned as murder, the outdated practice of animal sacrifice must also end.”

PETA India highlights that killing roosters illegally by several persons in furtherance of a common intention is a punishable offence under Section 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023. Under Section 325 of the BNS, mischievously killing roosters is punishable with imprisonment for a term that may extend to five years, a fine, or both.

In its complaint, PETA India also pointed out that under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Slaughter House) Rules, 2001, and the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011, the slaughter of animals for food is permissible only in a registered or licensed slaughterhouse. Any other sites used for the slaughter or sacrifice of animals are neither registered to kill them nor equipped with species-specific stunning facilities, which are mandatory under the law to prevent causing them unnecessary pain and suffering.

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other 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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