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  • Man Charged With Animal Cruelty For Dragging A Dog Tied To Scooty

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    SRINAGAR: In a shocking incident, a man tied a dog to his scooty and dragged him on the road. The video of the incident went viral on social media and caught attention of the police, who later arrested the man.

    Srinagar Police in a tweet said,“There is a viral video wherein a bike rider had tied a dog & was dragging this dog. FIR 31/2023 u/s 429 IPC & sec 11 of prevention of cruelty to animals act was registered at Nishat Police station.”

    The accused has been arrested and has been identified as Ab Rashid Dar son of Gh Rasool Dar of Gaw Marg Shalimar. The scooty of the accused has been seized.



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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Calcutta HC upholds husband’s right to seek divorce on ground of mental cruelty

    Calcutta HC upholds husband’s right to seek divorce on ground of mental cruelty

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    Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court has upheld the right of a husband to seek divorce from his wife on ground of mental cruelty if the wife constantly abuses the husband by describing him as “coward” and “unemployed” and at the same time force him to get separated from his parents.

    Hearing a matter related to a woman challenging a lower court order dissolving her marriage on the ground of mental cruelty against her husband, the division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Uday Kumar noted that as per Indian culture, the husband stays with his parents and there need to be some justifiable reason for the son to live separately.

    In this particular case, a family court in West Midnapore district had dissolved the marriage in July 2001 after accepting the husband’s contention accusing his wife of mental cruelty. The woman had challenged that order at the Calcutta High Court in May 2009.

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    On the issue of describing the husband as “coward” and “unemployed”, the court noted that it was because of a false complaint by the wife that the husband had lost his government job.

    The court also took note of some contents of the diary of the petitioner where she time and again described her husband as “coward” and “unemployed”.

    In the diary, she had also made it clear a number of times that she was forced to marry him because of pressure from her parents. As per the court’s observation, the petitioner had also made it clear in the diary that she was more keen to get married elsewhere.

    In such cases, the marriage just remains a legal tie and hence tantamount to nothing but fiction, the court noted.

    After hearing the arguments, the division bench upheld the verdict of the family court dissolving the marriage in 2001.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Telangana govt orders state-wide inspection of all piggery farms to check for cruelty

    Telangana govt orders state-wide inspection of all piggery farms to check for cruelty

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    Hyderabad: Telangana director of animal husbandry has directed all district veterinary and animal husbandry officers/member secretaries of the District Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to instruct field-level officers to keep a check on the usage of gestation and farrowing crates in the piggery farms in Telangana.

    This happened after the department received a representation from Mercy For Animals India Foundation, a press note from the organisation said.

    The letter directs the District Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of all districts to ensure compliance with Section 11(1)(e) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which states that any person who “keeps or confines any animal in any cage or receptacle which does not measure sufficiently in height, length and breadth to permit the animal a reasonable opportunity for movement” is punishable by fine or imprisonment.

    “Pregnant and nursing pigs confined in gestation and farrowing crates don’t have enough space to even turn around,” said Niharika Kapoor, the organising coordinator at Mercy For Animals India Foundation. “As a result, the pigs suffer bone degeneration and show signs of extreme stress, including biting the metal bars of the crates,” she added.

    After appeals from Mercy For Animals India Foundation and other groups, more than 16 states—including Delhi, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Manipur, Mizoram, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sikkim, West Bengal, and Punjab—have already prohibited the use of gestation and farrowing crates, the press note stated.

    A right-to-information response furnished by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) National Research Centre on pigs states that gestation and farrowing crates severely restrict movement and hence violate Section 11(1)(e) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. ICAR referred to a demi-official letter dated January 2014 to all veterinary universities and the National Research Centre on Pigs advising against the use of gestation crates in universities or research facilities. ICAR also cited the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Punjab, which had issued directives to district officers to ensure that no gestation crates are used in the state.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • ‘Bulldozer policy’ became face of govt’s cruelty: Rahul Gandhi

    ‘Bulldozer policy’ became face of govt’s cruelty: Rahul Gandhi

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    New Delhi: After the death of a mother-daughter duo in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur during an anti-encroachment drive by the administration, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and said the ‘bulldozer policy’ has become the face of the cruelty of the government.

    “When the arrogance of power takes away the right of the people to live, it is called dictatorship. My mind is disturbed by the incident in Kanpur. This ‘bulldozer policy’ has become the face of cruelty of this government. India does not accept this,” tweeted Rahul Gandhi.

    A 44-year-old woman and her daughter were killed after a fire broke out during an anti-encroachment drive at Marauli village of Kanpur Dehat region, the police said on Tuesday.

    The deceased were identified as Pramila Dixit (44) and her daughter, Neha Dixit (22).

    The victims’ family alleged that officials engaged in the drive set the house on fire when the mother-daughter duo were inside.

    Based on the allegations, a case has been registered against over a dozen people including sub divisional magistrate (SDM), station officer (SO), and Lekhpal.

    Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak spoke to the family of the victims via video call. The Deputy Chief Minister assured all possible help to the victims’ family and strict action against the culprits.

    According to information, the incident took place in the Marauli village on Monday afternoon during a demolition action by a team of district administration against “illegal encroachment”.

    The family members protested against the demolition drive and allegedly threatened to set themselves on fire to stop the removal action.

    This led to a scuffle between family members and officials, and during the ruckus a fire broke out and the entire house was gutted.

    There were four people inside the house at the time when the fire broke out, the exact cause of which was not clear.

    “Two of them were killed, while others sustained burn injuries,” officials said. Though the exact reason behind the fire was not clear, the victim family accused officials and anti-social elements of the area of deliberately setting their house on fire. Kanpur Police in an official note said that on the basis of the complaint by the victims’ family, a case has been registered against more than 12 people including SDM, SO, and Lekhpal.

    Four locals, identified as Ashok Dixit, Anil Dixit, Nirmal Dixit, and Vishal Dixit have also been named in the FIR.

    “There was a complaint lodged against Vishal Dixit (one of the accused named in the FIR) that he was trying to encroach upon the land belonging to village community. In connection with this, the administrative team reached the area to remove encroachment where the incident occured,” the police said.

    Further investigation in the matter is underway.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )