Mumbai: The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday mentioned feeding of a congregation of pigeons was an act causing a public nuisance and likewise posed a health hazard to individuals, and directed the Mumbai civic physique to file FIRs in opposition to individuals partaking in such an exercise.
A bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Arif Physician, whereas listening to a petition filed by a gaggle of animal lovers, famous the difficulty at hand is one of public health and the grave and potential health hazard to individuals of all ages at giant.
The courtroom had earlier this month restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) from demolishing any of the outdated heritage ‘kabutarkhanas’ (pigeon feeding spots) within the metropolis, however had mentioned it can’t allow feeding of these birds.
Regardless of the denial of permission, it has been discovered individuals proceed to feed pigeons at these ‘kabutarkhanas’, the courtroom famous on Wednesday.
“That is now compounded with an rising state of affairs of utter disregard for regulation, by those that defiantly proceed to feed pigeons within the enamel of our earlier order rejecting pleas supporting any such feeding and congregation of pigeons and now obstruction to civic officers from discharging their duties on this regard,” the bench noticed.
The HC then requested the BMC to penalise these feeding pigeons in defiance of its directives.
“We accordingly allow the municipal company to lodge prosecutions in opposition to any individual/s who continues to feed pigeons in defiance of the directives issued by the MCGM (Municipal Company of Larger Mumbai) since such acts would, in our unhesitating view, represent a public nuisance and certain to unfold illnesses and endanger human life,” the HC mentioned famous.
“Such acts undoubtedly expose individuals at giant and notably those that dwell or occupy property within the neighborhood (of pigeon feeding spots) to an eminent hazard from the unfold of infections/illnesses harmful to human life, as well as to causing a big scale public nuisance,” it insisted.
The municipal company shall take all mandatory steps and implement strict measures as they might deem applicable to cease the congregation of pigeons on the numerous ‘kabutarkhanas’ throughout the metropolis, the bench maintained.
The courtroom famous that the most important concern as we speak is once more of probably the most very important side — particularly the protection and predominance of human health from the menace created by the congregation of pigeons within the kabutarkhanas in query.
The HC was listening to the petition by animal lovers Pallavi Patil, Sneha Visaria, and Savita Mahajan, who claimed the BMC started demolishing ‘kabutarkhanas’ from July 3 with out authorized backing.
They argued the BMC’s act violated the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
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