MUMBAI: Following a tip won by way of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India that two horses thought to have been used for joyrides are tied up without shade, meals, or water at Nariman Point, opposite Tulsiani Chambers, in Mumbai, the activists on Tuesday swung into action. Based on its complaint, the Mumbai police arrived at the scene, and seized the horses who were found to be malnourished and very skinny, with visual ribs and backbones, and injured, with more than one massive wounds, together with an enormous infected wound on one horse's wither and left knee.
The Cuffe Parade police filed a First Information Report in opposition to the custodians of the horses underneath Sections three, 11(1)(a), (f), (h) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. After seizure, both the horses were transported to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) livestock pound in Malad for medical examination and rapid veterinary care.
"Keeping horses in Mumbai is illegal and using them for joy rides is cruel, yet sick, malnourished and injured horses are still forced to live in filthy unlicensed stables and are not provided with basic needs such as food, water and shelter,'' said PETA India Emergency Response Coordinator, Meet Ashar. "PETA India is working with the police and BMC to get disregarded horses the care they want and are calling on authorities to immediately put into effect Maharashtra's rehabilitation plan for carriage horse house owners and drivers," he added.
In June 2015, the Bombay prime court docket dominated that housing horses in stables no longer licensed by way of BMC and using horse-drawn carriages or Victorias in Mumbai for so-called "joy rides" is "totally illegal." In July 2017, the high court accepted the rehabilitation plan submitted by the Maharashtra government for horse-drawn carriage owners and drivers, allowing horses to be removed from Mumbai roads and drivers to receive a payment and/or a vendor license, thus ensuring their livelihood. PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that "animals aren't ours to abuse in any way" – sent a letter earlier this month urging leader secretary of Maharashtra D Ok Jain to put into effect this plan immediately by way of making sure that the BMC receives the important budget, as authorized by way of the State Government.
The Cuffe Parade police filed a First Information Report in opposition to the custodians of the horses underneath Sections three, 11(1)(a), (f), (h) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. After seizure, both the horses were transported to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) livestock pound in Malad for medical examination and rapid veterinary care.
"Keeping horses in Mumbai is illegal and using them for joy rides is cruel, yet sick, malnourished and injured horses are still forced to live in filthy unlicensed stables and are not provided with basic needs such as food, water and shelter,'' said PETA India Emergency Response Coordinator, Meet Ashar. "PETA India is working with the police and BMC to get disregarded horses the care they want and are calling on authorities to immediately put into effect Maharashtra's rehabilitation plan for carriage horse house owners and drivers," he added.
In June 2015, the Bombay prime court docket dominated that housing horses in stables no longer licensed by way of BMC and using horse-drawn carriages or Victorias in Mumbai for so-called "joy rides" is "totally illegal." In July 2017, the high court accepted the rehabilitation plan submitted by the Maharashtra government for horse-drawn carriage owners and drivers, allowing horses to be removed from Mumbai roads and drivers to receive a payment and/or a vendor license, thus ensuring their livelihood. PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that "animals aren't ours to abuse in any way" – sent a letter earlier this month urging leader secretary of Maharashtra D Ok Jain to put into effect this plan immediately by way of making sure that the BMC receives the important budget, as authorized by way of the State Government.
Mumbai: 2 wounded, malnourished horses rescued
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