ANIMAL ABUSE

Unfortunately today there are many cases of animal abuse happening around the world. Animal cruelty or animal abuse can be defined as the infliction of suffering or harm upon animals for purposes other than self-defense. There are many different types of abuse such as using animals for research, using animals for entertainment purposes, abandoning animals to shelters, and animal neglect. We need to raise awareness and find a solution to these issues. Animals are suffering and we need to help them.

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News reports on animal abuse:

• "Almost 5 lakh animals became victims of crimes in last 10 years in India:

Humans hurt, maimed, killed, and even raped almost 5 lakh animals between 2010 and 2020, according to the latest report on violence against animals in India.

The report, published by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) and All Creatures Great and Small (ACGS), says that in the said period a total of 4,93,910 animals became victims of crimes committed by humans.

 

These include over 2,300 gruesome and intentional acts of violence that led to the animal’s death or irreparable harm, the report says.

 

As per the report, out of the 1,000 assault cases recorded against the animals, 82 cases were of sexual abuse, 266 cases of cold-blooded murder, and over 400 cases were of violent attacks of beating, kicking, torturing, throwing acid or boiling water, maiming a part of the body, attacking with a knife or a blunt object.

 

According to the report, year 2019 saw the highest number of cases of crimes against animals (700 cases).

 

Additionally, almost 4,230 dogs were killed by mass culling drives across the country in the past five years alone."

• Animal cruelty cases rose in Mumbai since lockdown, claim activists

Out of the 480 cases recorded in the first two months this year, 266 were accidents and hit and run cases, while the rest were brutal murders, rapes, assaults and harassment like starving the animal or death due to abandonment.

 

“Before the lockdown we used to get around 2 to 3 complaints of hit and run and accident cases of stray animals but after the lockdown these numbers have increased to 7 to 8 cases in a day across the city,” said Mohnani.

 

Police and activists say some men consider it a sport to harm and abuse defenceless animals by beating, kicking, torturing, throwing acid or boiling water, amputating part of the body, attacking with a knife or a blunt object.

Insensitivity towards animals and ignorance of law are the main causes of animal abuse cases. Many do not know the law and others do not care as punishment for injuring an animal is rare, which makes them fearless.

During the lockdown, activists had to fight with several residential societies to allow pet owners to take them outside for their daily walks. Animals do not understand lockdown, they need to relieve themselves but many residential societies banned the owners to do so. We had to register many police complaints for harassment to animals.

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WHAT THE LAW SAYS

Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act makes all animal cruelties a criminal offence. Fines and imprisonment are both provided for. The Indian Penal Code has similar provisions. Under Section 506 of the IPC, it is a crime to threaten, abuse or harass neighbours who feed animals.

IPC Section 428 and 429 prescribe severe punishment of up to five years imprisonment to people resorting to dislocation, abduction and acts of cruelty towards community animals or pets and in such cases the police can arrest any offender without a warrant.

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If they do not fix animal abuse or animal cruelty soon we will have no more animals in the future. Hopefully in the future they will create better and more laws against abuse or cruelty, or they will pay more attention to animals being abused or not being given their rights. The rights that we have now for animals are perfectly fine its just that the animals aren’t given the rights they deserve to be given or have. If the government would follow through on paying attention to the case of animals being abused or treated unfair itself, there would be harsher punishment for an act as of doing so. Giving animals the rights they deserve is how it should be instead of using animals as lab rats, test subjects, or a teenagers thought of just a prank, when really in realization pushing a cow over on its back as “just a prank” can be very deadly for the cow actually. Animals aren’t given that much of their rights as they have to begin with. If they were to investigate and go deeper into the topic and subject of animals being abused there would be a lot of things that they would find out that they didn’t know. Harsher punishment is another thing to talk about. If they had harsher punishment just for neglecting an animal and not taking care of it there would be a lot more animals safe. If there was harsher punishment for abusing an animal there wouldn’t be as many animals getting abused, beaten, or neglected. Animal abuse, cruelty, and neglect are bad and animals aren’t given the rights they deserve. There are not enough laws preventing animal abuse. I do so hope that the in-charges' will take immediate action to forbid the untoward behaviour towards animals. Please do cooperate.