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The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to delete its three-year-old law.
The law under question is the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Care and Maintenance of Case Property Animals) Rules, 2017 notified on May 23, 2017.
The rules were framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
It allowed seizure and subsequent confiscation of livestock from people who depended on these animals for a livelihood, even before they were found guilty of cruelty towards them.
Key takeaways
The SC warned the government that it would “stay” the implementation of a 2017 law, which allowed authorities to seize cattle on a mere suspicion that they suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their owners or were being primed for slaughter.
According to the law, these animals would then be lodged in gaushalas as case property to await the court’s verdict.
Thus, a farmer, a livestock owner or a cattle trader loses his animals before being found guilty of the charge of cruelty.
SC ruled that these rules are contrary to Section 29 of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, under which only a person convicted of cruelty can lose his animal.
Do you know?
The 2017 Rules allow a Magistrate to forfeit the cattle of an owner facing trial under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
The animals are then sent to infirmaries, gaushalas, pinjarapole, etc.
These authorities can further give such animals for “adoption”.
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