Ghaziabad : People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India filed a legal complaint in Ghaziabad after becoming aware of a social media account that was posting several videos portraying forced fights between pit bull dogs. PETA India’s investigation discovered that the videos originated in Loni, Ghaziabad.
A first information report (FIR) was filed against three owners and organizers of the fights with Ankur Vihar Police Station under Sections 34, 289, 336, and 429 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, as well as Sections 3 and 11(1)(a) of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960. PETA India has urged police to identify the fighting dogs and safeguard them from further abuse and misery.
PETA India lauds Ghaziabad’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rural) Vivek Chandra Yadav for promptly directing the Ankur Vihar Police Station to register the FIR and sending the message that animal cruelty will not be tolerated, according to PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Sunayana Basu in a statement issued here on Monday.
Pit bulls bred for combat suffer greatly. We also applaud the Centre for taking action to prohibit the sale, breeding, and retention of pit bulls and other foreign canine breeds that are intentionally bred for violence and are widely used in unlawful fights and attacks. According to the PCA Act of 1960, inciting dogs to fight is unlawful.
However, planned dogfights are becoming more common in certain regions of India, particularly in the north. Pit bulls are chosen because they are among the “bully breeds” that were originally bred for bull baiting and bear baiting but are now utilized for dog fighting.
Pit bull-type dogs are among the most mistreated breeds on the globe since they are sometimes maintained only for dog fighting or as guard or attack dogs, forced to live a terrible existence at the end of a chain. They are generally violently trained and mistreated, leaving them terrified and defensive.
Dr. OP Chaudhary, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying, recently wrote to the chief secretaries of all states and union territories, urging local animal husbandry departments to ensure that no licenses or permissions are issued for the sale, breeding, or keeping of pit bulls or other breeds deliberately bred for aggression and commonly used for illegal fighting and attack.
