Mumbai: An FIR has been filed beneath the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act on the Malad West Police Station in Mumbai after a stray cat’s tail was chopped off on Sunday.
The FIR was registered on the grievance of the rescuer, who obtained the cat handled.
“Someone had brutally chopped the tail of this cat, who comes to me for food. I got her treated at a hospital. The FIR has been lodged at Malad West Police Station,” ANI quoted the rescuer as saying.
The Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying has been proposing a number of amendments to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960, which might make it stricter and act as a deterrent to offenders.
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The revised Act additionally proposes to represent a State Animal Welfare Board inside three months of the modification.
The Animal Husbandry Department had final month advised including to the 1960 Act a stringent new part, which addresses the killing of animals and grotesque cruelty in the direction of them.
The Animal Husbandry Department has additionally proposed amending the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act to hike the penalty for first-time offenders.
