The Prevention of Cruelty Animals Act,1960
Q
1) What amounts to cruelty on animals?
The
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 prescribes and enumerates the forms
of cruelty mentioned hereunder:
(a)Beating,
Kicking, Over-riding, Over-driving, Over-loading, Torturing,
Causing
unnecessary pain or suffering to any animals;
employed,
and still making it work or labour or for any purpose;
(c)
Wilfully and unreasonably administering any injurious drug or injurious
substance;
(d)
Conveying or carrying, either in or upon any vehicle in such a manner as to
subject it
to
unnecessary pain or suffering;
(e)
Keeping or confining any animal in any cage or any receptacle, which does not
measure sufficiently in height, length and breadth to permit the animal a reasonable opportunity for movement;
(f) Keeping for an unreasonable time any animal chained or tethered upon an unreasonably heavy chain or chord;
(g) Being the owner, neglects to exercise or cause to be exercised reasonably any dog habitually chained up or kept in close confinement;
(h) Being the owner of any animal fails to provide such animal with sufficient food, drink or shelter;
(i) Being the owner, without reasonable cause, abandons any animal in circumstances, which render it likely that it will suffer pain by reason of starvation or thirst;
(j) Wilfully permits any animal, of which he is the owner to go at large in any street while the animal is affected with a contagious or infectious disease, or without reasonable excuse permits any diseased or disabled animal, of which he is the owner, to die in any street;
suffering pain by reason of mutilation, starvation,
thirst, overcrowding or other ill-treatment
(l)
Mutilates any animal or kills any animal (including stray dogs) by using the
method of
strychnine
injections in the heart or in any other unnecessarily cruel manner;
(m)
Solely with a view to providing entertainment
(n)Organizes, keeps, uses or acts in the management of any place for animal fighting or for the purpose of baiting any animal or permits or offers any place to be so used or receives money for the admission of any other person to any place kept or used for any such purposes;
