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发帖数: 12553 | 1 蝙蝠疫阴云笼罩下的本日花边。
斗鸡的爪上是绑了刀的，结果被鸡蹬中了脖子。
New Delhi (CNN)An Indian man has died after a tussle with his rooster -- on
their way to a cockfight.
Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a blade tied
to the rooster's claw on January 15. A police spokesman told CNN the father
of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke.
Rao, who lived in Pragadavaram village in southern India's Andhra Pradesh
state, was a regular at local cockfights, and was on his way to enter the
rooster in a competition when it tried to break free, station house officer
Kranti Kumar said.
Cockfighting has been illegal in India since 1960. However, animal fighting
continues to be a problem in the country, according to Gauri Maulekhi,
trustee for India's People for Animals foundation.
"The offenses have been made very clear and explained to the district and
state authorities, but they choose to turn a blind eye towards it. It is not
just for entertainment that these animals are made to fight, but it is (
also) due to the heavy betting and gambling that goes on in the garb of
these events," Maulekhi said.
Kumar said the local cockfight went ahead without any arrests.
A 2014 Supreme Court judgment clarified the illegality of animal fighting
under India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. In 2015, Maulekhi used
that judgment to intervene in a state court petition to lift the ban on
cockfighting -- and the ban was upheld.
"I don't think culture has anything to do with it -- it is purely a money
game and hysteria takes over, reason and logic just take a back seat such
that neither the animal's welfare nor the people's welfare is enough to stop
it," Maulekhi said. | p*****h
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