JIPMER under Scanner for alleged illegal experiments on animals, gets show cause notice
In the student complaint received by PETA India, rats and mice were kept in miserable conditions, in violation of regulations and guidelines.;
Puducherry: The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, has come under fire for alleged cruel and illegal experimentation on animals.
The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) has sent a show-cause notice to JIPMER's director, demanding that the experiments be stopped immediately failing which legal action would be initiated against it.
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CPCSEA's move follows a complaint from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, which was submitted with evidence of the violation of animal protection laws. The CPCSEA is a statutory body formed by the Act of the Indian Parliament under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960.
In its complaint, PETA India submitted evidence of cruelty and illegality by JIPMER through photographs, the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) circulars inviting research proposals using animals, minutes of IAEC meetings during which illegal animal experiments were approved, memorandums releasing research grants to support proposals involving animal experiments, and published research papers that discuss experiments conducted on animals by the institute during the past 10 years.
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