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Details for registration number : MOEAF/E/2020/00277

Name of Complainant Naresh Kadyan
Date of Receipt 24/02/2020
Received by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Grievance Description:
To,
1. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
2. Central Zoo Authority of India
3. Chief Wildlife Warden of Gujarat
4. Wildlife Wing, Gujarat Police
5. National Tiger Conservation Authority
6. National Biodiversity Authority
7. DM - SP, Rajkot
Subject: Breaching trust, violating the Recognition of Zoo Rules, 2009 read with 409 IPC, recalling recognition
under section 38-H of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: Threat to captive wild animal in Zoo premises.
Greetings,
Kindly refer to the section 3 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 read with section 39 of the Wildlife
Protection Act, 1972, whereas Rajkot Zoological Park, run & managed by Municipal Corporation, have no legal
rights to capture scheduled wild animal, besides it keeping in their unlawful custody for a long time without any
reason, besides it one captive animal was hunted by a wild Leopard, due to gross negligence on management.

Breaching trust, violating the Recognition of Zoo Rules, 2009 read with 409, 428, 429 IPC, recalling recognition
under section 38-H of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, restoring 5 freedoms of captured wild animals, releasing
in the natural habitat, at once.
Yours in Scouting’s,
Mrs. Sukanya Berwal, Commissioner of Education
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