For Immediate Release:
15 January 2025
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Meet Ashar; AsharM@petaindia.org
Hiraj Laljani; HirajL@petaindia.org
Shahkot – In response to heinous videos circulating on social media, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India worked with senior officials of Jalandhar Rural Police to ensure the registration of a first information report (FIR) against a man suspected of cruelty to animals. The FIR was registered Suo Moto against Mr Mandeep under Section 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and Section 11 of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960. Section 325 of the BNS, 2023 makes the maiming or killing of any animal a cognisable offence and provides for a jail term of up to five years, a fine, or both.
PETA India received several deeply disturbing and sickening videos that appeared on social media, on which the accused posted footage of animals being used as bait to provoke violent attacks by dogs. In the videos, helpless animals were tied up alive with ropes and forced into a horrific situation where dogs, reportedly starved for long periods, were seen tearing them apart. The accused has been apprehended, and the police are in the process of rescuing the animals, who will be rehabilitated at an animal shelter in Jalandhar.
The videos can be available upon request.
“Abusing animals in such wantonly cruel ways is the action of someone who may move on to harming humans, as often happens. For everyone’s safety, it’s imperative that members of the public come forward with what they know about the case and report cruelty to animals such as this one,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Virendra Singh. “We commend the Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Jalandhar Rural, Shri Mukhtiar Rai; the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Shahkot, Shri Onkar Singh Brar; and the Station House Officer, Shahkot Police Station, Shri Jatinder Singh, for promptly registering the Suo Moto FIR and sending a clear message that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated.”
PETA India recommends that perpetrators of animal abuse undergo 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.”
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 X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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