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The Chittoor territory medication has imposed a implicit prohibition connected cockfights pursuing the directions issued by the State government. In a connection issued present connected Monday (January 12, 2026), Joint Director (Animal Husbandry) D. Umamaheshwari said that cockfights are amerciable nether the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and successful enactment with wide directions issued by the Supreme Court and High Courts.
The signifier has been categorised arsenic cruelty and unit against animals and cannot beryllium justified successful the sanction of tradition, she added. She said organising cockfights, encouraging oregon facilitating the activity, conducting betting, oregon fixing crisp blades and knives to roosters were each prohibited offences. Any effort to behaviour cockfighting anyplace successful the territory would pull stringent ineligible enactment against those involved, she warned.
Dr. Umamaheshwari said that the police, revenue, carnal husbandry, and different acrophobic departments were moving successful coordination and maintaining continuous surveillance to forestall amerciable cockfighting. Special monitoring was successful spot to deter violations.
Appealing to villagers, youth, and the public, she urged them to respect the instrumentality and enactment distant from specified activities. Protecting carnal welfare, maintaining nationalist order, and upholding the regularisation of instrumentality were corporate responsibilities, she added.
