Staff Reporter
The Kohsar police have registered a case against caretakers of the two lions who died while being transferred from Islamabad’s Marghazar zoo to a farmhouse in Lahore on Thursday.
The case has been registered under Section 5 of the Animal Act 1990. The law punishes people for killing any animal in an unnecessarily cruel manner. Those convicted under the law must pay a fine of Rs200 and can be imprisoned for up to six months.
The FIR says that the caretakers beat the pair with sticks and lit a fire in their cage to make them unconscious, rather than using a tranquiliser.
A video of the caretakers igniting a fire in the lion’s cage has been shared on social media too. The negligence of the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board is also being investigated in the case.
The Ministry of Climate Change has formed an investigation committee in the case too.
