Animals acts return to Russian circus

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Animals acts return to Russian circus

 

Court vacates stay on performing animals; angry

activists to re-appeal.

 

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=121642

 

Express News Service

 

Mumbai, March 17: THE Bombay High Court has vacated

the stay order on the Russian State Circus Company’s

(Rosgoscirk) usage of performing animals at their

Circus on Ice running in the city.

 

The 17-act show will now reinstate the three acts

involving sea lions, cats and Eskimo dogs.

 

 

 

The Rosgoscirk had used these animals in other Indian

cities but ran into a roadblock when they came to

Mumbai in late February.

 

Animal rights activists had filed a petition to stop

the use of performing animals in the circus.

 

The RSCC has now managed to get the stay order lifted,

on the grounds that the regulations on performing

animals apply to Indian circuses and not foreign ones,

said a spokesperson for the circus.

 

He also added that the show’s run might be extended by

a couple of weeks from its initial closing date of

March 27.

 

However, Anuradha Sawhney, chief functionary, People

for Ethical Treatment of Animals, alleged that the

circus did not have the quarantine papers for the

animals in order and, in fact, had been ordered by the

Calcutta High Court to hand over the sea lions.

 

“They lied in their petition to the court,’’ said

Sawhney, adding that sheand Dharmesh Solanki of People

For Animals , had carried out the required Animal

Welfare Board of India inspection on March 6—which the

circus told the court never took place.

 

PETA and six other animal rights’ organisations now

plan to stage protests at each show while they

re-appeal to the court.

 

 

 

 

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