21/05/2026
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'You do not need a lawyer to file a case with your local police, or in the case that they refuse, with your local magistrate.
(1) You must go to the nearest police station, only the local police will have jurisdiction to deal with crimes taking place in their area.
(2) Animal cruelty (this includes overdriving, beating, ill-treating, binding/confining an animal in a manner to cause it pain or suffering and sale of an animal suffering pain by reason of mutilation, starvation, thirst, overcrowding or other ill-treatment, or the sale of any dead animal killed in an unnecessarily cruel manner under section 4 of the Act, killing an animal with unnecessary cruelty under section 7 of the Act and inciting an animal to fight under section 11 of the Act-these and more provisions of cruelty are detailed in the Act bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/print_sections_all.php?id=115) is a crime!
(3) If the local police refuse to take the case, you have the option of filing the case with the local magistrate.
(4) When drafting an FIR/ejahar, keep the facts short and to the point of how they constitute animal cruelty under the Act and mention the specific sections of the Act it relates to.
(5) In case of wildlife animal abuse please report to the Wildlife Crime Control Unit at https://www.facebook.com/BFDWCCU/.
(6) Gather as much evidence (take pictures, videos, pursue eye witnesses, etc.).
Police officers may refuse to take your case because they may not be aware of this law or their powers under this law - show them if you have to.'
- Barrister Nadia Choudhury
