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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India has slammed the Assam authorities for the transition of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Assam Amendment) Bill, 2025, successful the Assembly connected Thursday (November 27, 2025).
The Bill seeks to exempt the accepted buffalo fight, locally known arsenic Moh Juj, from the purview of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
In a connection connected Thursday, PETA India said the transition of the Bill plunged Assam into the acheronian ages. The Bill, it said, undermines the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which prohibits forcing animals to combat and violates laws upholding carnal rights.
“The transition of this cruel Bill aimed astatine allowing susceptible buffaloes to beryllium beaten into charging at, wounding and bloodying each different takes Assam backmost to the acheronian ages,” PETA India’s elder argumentation and ineligible advisor Vikram Chandravanshi said.
Following a petition by PETA India, the Gauhati High Court had quashed the Assam government’s modular operating process connected December 27, 2023, which allowed buffalo and bulbul vertebrate fights during the mid January Magh Bihu.
Earlier, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Minister Krishnendu Paul said that the archetypal State Act dealing with cruelty to animals allows exemptions nether circumstantial taste circumstances.
In the Statement of Objects and Reasons, the authorities argued that Moh Juj has agelong been an intrinsic portion of Assamese heritage, contributing not lone to taste preservation but besides to the continuation of autochthonal buffalo breeds.
Mr. Paul said the amendment aligns Assam with States similar Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, which secured exemptions for taste practices specified arsenic Jallikattu and bullock cart racing.
