Oppose Bullfights.. Help Poor Animals!

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Dear All,

 

Despite of my campaign against Bullfighting, yesterday again there was a

bullfight took place wherein one bullock badly injured in bullfight with

similar others. This time the bullfight took place in 'Kongoan' village near

Kalyan City. Please see below link:

 

Bull fights rage on, cops take it easy

 

Full story:

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article & sectid=2 & contentid=200\

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Once again, I request you to forward similar, strong & protesting e-mails to

*Thane Police Commissioner (Urban) Mr. Sivanandan* on police

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Nilesh Bhanage

 

Hony. Gen. Secretary – PAWS

 

Cell : +91 9820161114

 

www.pawsasia.org

 

 

 

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*Bull fights rage on, cops take *it easy

 

*A week after Mumbai Mirror reported on bull fights at Dombivli, another

spectacle is organised in a village in the same area*

 

 

 

 

 

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Bull fights continue to be a rage despite a Supreme Court ban on them. Over

a week after Mumbai Mirror reported on bull fights organised at Pisavli

village near Dombivli, locals at Kalyan and Dombivli held a marathon bull

fight in which 30 bulls locked horns for over seven hours.

 

The spectacle was organised at Kon village on the outskirts of Kalyan.

 

It can be noted that after Mirror's report last Saturday on the bull fight

at Dombivli, the police had booked the organisers and arrested four of them,

who were later remanded to judicial custody.

 

Anupkumar Singh, deputy commissioner of police in-charge of the area, had

said he wouldn't tolerate bull fights in the area.

 

However, barely a week later on Sunday, another mega bull fight was

organised allegedly with the blessings of Pundalik Mhatre, Mayor of Kalyan

Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).

 

Huge banners with his photograph were put up all over the field near the

fish market at Kon village, where the fight was held.

 

Over 30 bulls from several villages in the area locked horns. Goat fights

were also held at the ground. The event went on till 4 pm.

 

Interestingly, police surveyed the area when the fights were going on, but

just to drive away vendors standing near the ground.

 

When contacted, Mhatre said he was at Kon village to meet his in-laws who

stay there. " I had nothing to do with the event. I had gone to the village

to meet my in-laws, " he said. Asked about his pictures on the banners put up

by organisers, he said, " Somebody must have put my photo on the banners but

I had nothing to do with it. These days, anybody can get my picture and put

it on a banner. "

 

Attempts to contact Thane police commissioner D Sivanandhan, DCP Ankush

Shinde and senior officers at Shantinagar police station, in whose

jurisdiction the fight took place, did not yield any results.

 

While Sivanandhan and Shinde did not answer the phone calls and SMSes,

senior inspector at the police station in the area was not on duty, Sunday

being his weekly off.

 

 

*TRAINED TO KILL*

Bull fights are held in the Kalyan-Dombivli belt every year after Diwali.

Bulls with the right pair of horns are chosen. Once chosen, a bull is given

a special mixture of pulses, oil, jaggery and eggs, for about a month. They

are made to swim regularly to keep fit and are treated with special massage.

They are forced to abstain from sex for a month. Three days before the

fight, the bulls are confined to dark rooms. This is done to make them

restless and irritable.

 

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Nilesh Bhanage

+91 9820161114

www.pawsasia.org