(IN) Animal rights body objects to 'misuse' of langurs

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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060621/cth1.htm#6

 

Chandigarh, June 20

An animal rights body has taken umbrage to the alleged “misuse†of two male

langurs by authorities for tackling the monkey menace. Yesterday evening,

members of the Menaka Gandhi-headed People for Animals (PFA), Haryana

chapter, arrived at the PGI and caught the owner of the two langurs and handed

him over to the police post, PGI.

 

Led by Mr Naresh Kumar Kadyan, chairman of the Haryana chapter of PFA, the

activists, in their complaint to the police, alleged that by using the langurs

to drive away the monkeys, the owner of the langurs was violating the provisions

of the Wildlife Protection Act, as well as the Protection of Cruelty to Animals

Act, 1960. The other members of the team included Mr Ravinder Tyagi, Mr Anup

Goyal and advocate Madan Pal.

 

Sometime back, the authorities had engaged the services of a Delhi-based

person, who had two langurs, for a monthly payment of Rs 10,000 per langur,

to drive away the monkeys from the PGI and Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Later, the services of the langurs were also used to oust monkeys from

Sector 7.

 

The langurs had been pressed into service following wide-spread complaints

from patients, doctors and other staff of the PGI, referring to the terror

tactics adopted by the monkeys.

 

In fact, the experiment had proved to be such a success that the authorities

had extended the contract of the owner of the langurs. Kept at strategic

locations where the monkeys used to camp in groups, the langurs successfully

drove out the monkeys from these places.

 

Mr Kadyan, when contacted, told The Tribune that they had found that the

owner of the langurs had not taken any permission from the Animal Welfare

Board of India, Chennai, to use the langurs for this purpose.

 

He also claimed that the owner of the langur had not declared about them as

was warranted under Section 63 of the Wildlife Protection Act.

 

Till late evening today, the police had not registered a case in the matter.

However, it was learnt that the police has sought the opinion of the

Wildlife authorities in this regard.

 

 

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