Finally, a court has acknowledged what animal activists have been screaming for years: ₹10–₹50 fines do not deter cruelty.
The J&K and Ladakh High Court has called for strict jail time and heavier penalties under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
But this cannot end as another observation in another judgment.
Every High Court, the Supreme Court, Parliament and the Government need to confront the larger question:
How long will India continue with an animal-cruelty law whose penalties fail to create meaningful deterrence?
We are witnessing horrific cruelty repeatedly animals beaten, tortured, sexually abused, mutilated and subjected to violence for entertainment and social-media content.
At what point do we stop treating these incidents as isolated acts and start asking what the normalisation of such brutality says about our society?
Cruelty towards a vulnerable living being should never be dismissed as a minor offence simply because the victim is an animal.
This is also bigger than animal welfare.
Research has documented an association between animal cruelty and other forms of interpersonal violence. That alone should make strengthening prevention, enforcement and punishment a serious public-safety conversation.
Amending the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act is no longer something that should remain endlessly pending.
India needs penalties proportionate to the cruelty committed, meaningful imprisonment for serious offences, stronger investigation and prosecution, and laws capable of creating actual deterrence.
The J&K and Ladakh High Court has acknowledged the problem.
Now the question is: who will act on it?
#AmendPCA
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@gharkekalesh Let me guess, Auto driver completely knowing them to be non locals and from NE, demanded extra money.. they did not budge..
Bangalore Auto drivers, most of them do this to non locals and tourists.
Fare meter is non existent
For nearly 20 days, feeders say they have been stopped from feeding community dogs across PAU, Ludhiana, with the feeding van denied access.
Dogs are now reportedly reduced to skin & bones. Students struggled just to get one sick dog out through Gate 8 for treatment.
Earlier, concerns were raised over the relocation of a mother dog with newborn pups. Now this.
What exactly is PAU trying to achieve by preventing animals from being FED?
Hunger is not population control.
Starvation is not management.
LET THEM EAT.
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This is straight out of Gully Cricket tactics, the boy or girl who brings the bat, ball and stumps gets to argue and somehow has the right to decide who wins the match.
In this case:
Bat + ball + stumps = BCCI might.
This is not a WIN. Period.
Who the hell argues with an umpire and gets an on-field decision overturned? Absolutely pathetic.
Japan should have just walked away.