BENGALURU: Mangaluru, Karnataka-Inspectors authorised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), which operates under the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC), filed 27 non-cognizable offence complaints at the Surathkal police station in Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka today after witnessing apparently illegal cruelty to buffalo at the Surathkal Arasu Kambala event organised on 3rd and 4th January.

Previously, over the last two weeks, 38 non-cognisable offences and one First Information Report (FIR) on a cognisable offence were filed during Baradi and Mulki Kambala events. All the three kambala events inspected by AWBI apparently violated a Supreme Court ruling and several laws, including sections of the Indian Penal Code; The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960; the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Transport of Animals on Foot) Rules, 2001; Transport of Animals Rules, 1978; the Prevention of Cruelty to Drought and Pack Animals Rules, 1965; and the Performing Animals (Registration) Rules, 2001. Among the violations at the Surathkal Kambala were the following: