Helen Banks, 87, founder of Second Chance for Greyhounds, died on March 14, 2015. “Her protective concern for animals of all kinds started early,” recalled William Ernest Waites in a November/December 2002 profile of Banks for The Times of the Islands, “with much of her childhood spent rescuing strays. As an attractive young woman in […]
“Prevention of cruelty to animals overrides so-called tradition & culture” says Supreme Court of India
NEW DELHI––“The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960…in our view overshadows or overrides so-called tradition and culture,” ruled a two-judge panel representing the Supreme Court of India on May 7, 2014. The decision that prevention of cruelty trumps “tradition and culture” in Indian law came in a verdict against […]