Sacrifice of Seven Buffaloes Stopped in Jogulamba Gadwal Following PETA India Complaint 

For Immediate Release:

07 May 2023

Contact: 

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]  

Sanskriti Bansore; [email protected] 

Jogulamba Gadwal – After learning that some locals of Thatikunta village in Jogulamba Gadwal district were planning to sacrifice seven buffaloes during a festival called Devara, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India sprang into action and worked with the superintendent of police and circle inspector of Gadwal to prevent the sacrifice from taking place. 

“PETA India commends Jogulamba Gadwal police for taking steps to ensure the illegal sacrifice did not take place,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Saloni Sakaria. “Just as human sacrifice is now treated as murder, at a time when India is launching space missions, the archaic practice of animal sacrifice must end.” 

In its complaint, PETA India pointed out that Section 5(b) of the Telangana Animals and Birds Sacrifices Prohibition Act, 1950, states that no person shall knowingly allow any sacrifice to be performed at any place that is in their possession or under their control. Section 4 prohibits anyone from officiating, performing, or participating in sacrificing an animal in any congregation. Section 8 makes all offences under the Act cognisable. 

Gujarat, Kerala, Puducherry, and Rajasthan already have laws in place prohibiting the religious sacrifice of any animal in any temple or its precinct. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana prohibit it in any place of public religious worship or adoration or its precinct or in any congregation or procession connected with religious worship on a public street. 

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 

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