Plea In Supreme Court To Enhance Penalties Under The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act, 1960 [Read Petition]

A PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (PCA Act) in order to include stringent punishments for perpetrators of animal cruelty. The Petitioner, Advocate Sankalp Golatkar, has contended that the root cause of the exponential rise in animal cruelty cases is the "infinitesimal penalty" imposed on the perpetrators under...