SC refuses to stay culling of nilgai, wild boar, monkeys

June 20, 2016 12:30

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to put on hold the Centre's notifications that declared some animals as vermin, allowing them to be culled and asked the petitioner to take up the matter with the government.

An animal rights activist on June 15 asked the court to quash the three notifications that declared nilgai (blue bulls), monkeys and wild boars as vermin in the states of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, respectively.

The petition also requested the court to immediately put on hold the notifications that pitted two cabinet ministers against each other and has enraged animal rights activists.

"The impugned notifications have been passed in absolute disregard of the human-wildlife conflict plaguing the country and without any scientific survey backing them," the plea said.

The Centre's decisions to classify -- on state governments' request -- the animals as vermin put the spotlight back on conservation challenges in India as incidents of man-animal conflict rise with shrinking wildlife habitats.

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