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However, in individual cases, a court or magistrate can prohibit a person from these activities, if it has proven that "that the training or exhibition of any performing animal has been accompanied by unnecessary pain or suffering". Penalties for offences of chapter V are a maximum of 500 rps (approx. $ 6.14) fine or up to three months imprisonment. Exemptions are made for the use of trained animals by the military and police and animals kept in zoos or on display for other educational and scientific purposes.
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animals for the advancement of knowledge, it does allow the Board to advise the
Central Government to create a committee for the "purpose of controlling and supervising experiments on animals". The formed committee can then be authorized to inspect any institution or place that is suspected of violating the rules set out under chapter 17 of the Act, and subject to penalties detailed in section 20 upwards to the amount of 200 rps (approx. $ 2.46).
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Naresh Kadyan, Chief
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In the following years, and after numerous high-profile animal cruelty cases in the media, animal welfare organisations and political leaders called for the law to be amended, including
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The amendment includes 'bestiality' as crime, under the new category of 'gruesome cruelty', while increasing the penalties for violation from the current (first time) fines of Rs 10 - 50 (approx $ 0.12 - $ 0.61), to Rs 50,000 - 75,000 ($ 614.00 - $ 921.50), 'or the cost of the animal, whichever is
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more or with the imprisonment of one year to 3 years or with both'. The draft Bill also allows for many offences to be made cognizable, which allows for arrests without an arrest warrant and in cases of killing an animal, a maximum punishment of up to five years in jail.
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enacted in 1960 to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals and to amend the laws relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals. The act defines "animal" as 'any living creature other than a human being'.
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