{"id":1769,"date":"2019-06-21T04:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:45:54","slug":"punjab-and-haryana-high-court-has-accorded-the-status-of-legal-person-or-entity-to-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/punjab-and-haryana-high-court-has-accorded-the-status-of-legal-person-or-entity-to-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of legal person or entity to animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the\nstatus of<strong>&nbsp;legal person or entity to\nanimals<\/strong>, granting them the \u201ccorresponding rights, duties,\nand liabilities of a living person\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bench also provided\nguidelines for the accord.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>Guidelines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It has<strong>&nbsp;fixed load to be\n     carried&nbsp;<\/strong>by\n     animals and banned their deployment for pulling vehicles in<strong>extreme\n     cold and heat conditions.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li>The&nbsp;<strong>use\n     of spike sticks, harness or yoke with spikes,<\/strong>&nbsp;knobs, projections and\n     other sharp instruments were also&nbsp;<strong>banned&nbsp;<\/strong>in Haryana, to begin with,\n     for avoiding bruises, swelling, abrasions and severe pain to them.<\/li><li>To avoid inconvenience to animals the court\n     directed the police to ensure that carts driven by animals were given\n     the&nbsp;<strong>\u201cright of way\u201d<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Their use was also limited to<strong>&nbsp;nine\n     hours a day in the aggregate,<\/strong>&nbsp;and not more than five hours without a\n     break.<\/li><li>It also owners to put<strong>&nbsp;fluorescent\n     reflectors<\/strong>&nbsp;in\n     the front and back of their carts and the animals shall also be<strong>&nbsp;covered\n     with stripes of fluorescent reflectors<\/strong>&nbsp;for their identification at night.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of&nbsp;legal person or entity to animals, granting them the \u201ccorresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bench also provided guidelines for the accord. 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