Thane: After the terrible Wednesday fire tragedy in Rambaug Lane in Kalyan City of Thane District, where some animals were burned to death, a fir it was filed to the Phule Mahatma police station against the owner of three pet stores for negligence and atrocities against animals.
Animal activists and ahimsa, Shashikanth Purohit, told Tii, “I have submitted a quarter against Kalyan-based pet shop owners who were damaged in the fire incident on Wednesday, killing some limited animals such as cats, birds, pigs and mice.
Among other things .
the shops are pets locked from the outside during a fire extinguisher in the morning, and therefore there is no attendant human being to take the animals to safety.
This omission cruel, and also illegal because the stores do not have a valid license from Maharashtra.
State animal Welfare Board.
“Purohit added,” Kalyan-based pet shops named Aqua Passion, Maharashtra aquarium and gold fish operate on site without stock permits from state authorities.
Many pet stores in this country generally only apply to local city permits to operate, but that Not enough when animals live involved.
If these pet shops have a fire alarm or si Stem sprinkler, then maybe many animals, birds and fish can be saved.
“The police filed in the section of the IPC 429, 337, 289, 268, and the relevant part under the prevention of atrocities on the animal law, 1960, for criminal negligence and cruelty.
Activist People for Animals (PFA) from the Mumbai Navi unit, Vijay Rangare, “The state government must actually begin to monitor all pet stores operating in the state, so they comply with the rules of the 2018 pet shop.
Among the clauses in these rules are that pet shops must be It has the right fire safety system, in addition to other factors for animal welfare and birds that are locked up for sale.
Even in the Navi Mumbai area and Panvel Taluka, most of the pet shop did not follow the rules of safety.
“Police Inspector Laxman Gaikwad from the Phule Mahatma police station is an investigative officer (IO) for this particular case in Kalyan.