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Supreme Court to hear plea against culling of nilgais, wild boards, monkeys

| | Jun 15, 2016, at 08:18 pm
New Delhi, June 15 (IBNS) The Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging government notifications declaring nilgai,wild boar and monkey vermin and allowing their culling in Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, reports said.

A vacation bench of the top court has agreed to hear two PILs by animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi and Wildlife Rescue and Research Centre (WRRC), challenging the notifications.

 
The counsel for the petitioners  told the bench that the government has already recruited people to kill these animals in the three states. The decision was taken without undertaking any study, he said.
 
The culling of these animals has charge up an uproar over the issues of ethical propriety and ecological balance, creating a division even among ministers  in the Union Cabinet.

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