MUMBAI: People for Animals, an NGO chaired by Maneka Gandhi, rescued 21 large animals including cows and bullocks during a recent raid to an illegal slaughterhouse in Thane (rural) district.
The activists had received a tip-off that cows and calves were being blatantly slaughtered in Wada area by butchers. So, with the help of Thane (rural) police, they raided the illegal slaughterhouse and got the butchers arrested on the spot.
The field officer for PFA, Chetan Sharma, led his team of volunteers during this successful raid. He has also been instrumental in the shutting down of multiple illegal slaughter houses in Maharashtra, including a notorious one in Koparkhairane in Navi Mumbai. In the latest raid at Wada, the slaughterhouse was owned and run by one Nazim Kuthe and his son Salman Kuthe.
They were charged under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, 1973 and provisions of the Indian Penal Code. When we got there we found blood strewn everywhere and we also found two huge axes also covered with blood. There were 21 cows and calves waiting to be slaughtered,'' said Sharma. He has filed the FIR against the butchers under sections 397 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 5, 6, 9 and 11 of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act.
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