Raipur Police Register FIR for Displacement and Killing of Puppies, Following PETA India Complaint

For Immediate Release:

01 February 2024

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Raipur – Acting on a tip regarding the alleged relocation of four puppies who were born at the Government Dudhadhari Bajrang Girls Postgraduate College campus in Kalibadi, Raipur, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s Dr Kiran Ahuja and local activists Vanchana Laban, Rahul Solanki, and Vidhi Abrol promptly reported the incident to City Kotwali Police Station. The preliminary findings revealed that two puppies had died where they were dumped as a result of being separated from their mother. The post-mortem examination confirmed that the cause of death was starvation. The police registered a first information report under Section 429 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, against an unknown individual for illegally displacing the four 2-month-old puppies, reportedly on the instructions of the college’s principal, and causing two of them to die.

One puppy was found alive in a distressing condition, huddling beside his dead siblings. After a check-up by a veterinarian, he was reunited with his distraught mother in the presence of the police. The whereabouts and well-being of the fourth puppy are still unknown.

“An educational institution should be instilling lessons of kindness and empathy in students, not cruelty,” says PETA India Cruelty Case Division Legal Advisor and Manager Meet Ashar. “The fear, distress, and hunger the puppies must have experienced before succumbing to this abuse are unimaginable. PETA India is calling on institutions of learning to address the community dog overpopulation crisis by getting the dogs on their campuses sterilised.”

Rule 11(19) of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, permits the capturing of community dogs only for the purpose of sterilisation 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.”

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, notes that community dogs are often subjected to human 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. Sterilising one female dog can prevent 67,000 births over six years, and sterilising one female cat can prevent 370,000 births over seven years.

To report cruelty to animals or emergencies involving them, please call PETA India on 9820122602.

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