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Pets banned: Animal board to send notice
Publication: The Times Of India Delhi; Date: Jul 16, 2011; Section: Times City; Page: 5
Aditya Dev | TNN
Gurgaon: A day after TOI carried a news report about the managing committee of a Gurgaon group housing society that had banned residents from keeping pets, the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and several other NGOs have criticized the move.
Calling the decision by the society managing committee not only orthodox but also illegal and an infringement upon a person’s fundamental right, AWBI chairman Maj Gen (Retd) RM Kharb said the board would send a legal notice to the managing committee on Monday. Kanchanjunga Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS) in sector-56 had issued notices to residents who have pets.
“This rule is illegal and the society cannot impose a ban on residents. The committee has committed a grave mistake by putting such a rule in its society by-laws. We will seek a reply from the managing committee,” said Kharb.
Rishi Dev of Citizens For Animal Rights (CFAR), an NGO, said keeping a pet is a fundamental right of every Indian and hence for an association or committee to impose such restrictions is against the law. Dev also cited an order by the Mumbai High Court where the court had instructed a society to allow people to use lifts for their pets. In another order, the Court had also pulled up another society for charging a monthly tax/ fees on pets from their owners.
Some of the NGOs have even threatened to take the matter to court. Naresh Kadyan, chairman of People for Animals Haryana, said he would bring this matter to the notice of Registrar of Societies (ROS). All CGHS are governed by the RCS.
Meanwhile, a Supreme Court advocate and pet lover Rakesh Kishore has come forward offering to represent the pet-loving residents in court; he has also decided to waive his fee. Kishore said incorporating any absurd rule in society by-laws or mentioning such a clause in allotment letters is not legally valid and hence such rules
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More idiotic RWA people banning pets in their housing society. The morons are unaware of the fact that it is illegal and shall be taken to task soon. Will update.
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