Abstract
Cruelty to animals is arguably an important issue of concern for all of us who believe in a safe, flourishing, clean world in which all could live and prosper. The debate is on how to optimise the conditions so that all living beings (including plants) make use of available resources equitably so that this ecosystem survives and flourishes. In independent India, the first visible effort in this direction was made by the famous theosophist Rukmini Devi Arundale who placed a private member bill in the Rajya Sabha in 1956 for prevention of cruelty against animals. Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, admitted that the issue was so important that instead of a private member bill, a legislative proposal should come from the government. The Prevention to Cruelty to Animals Act thus came into being in 1960. The legislation kept the provision that “Nothing contained in the Act shall render unlawful the performance of experiments on animals for the purpose of advancement by new discovery...”.
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