{"id":216527,"date":"2020-07-03T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/07\/03\/state-govt-orders-total-ban-on-dog-meat-trade\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:46:52","slug":"state-govt-orders-total-ban-on-dog-meat-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/03\/state-govt-orders-total-ban-on-dog-meat-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"State govt orders total ban on dog meat, trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>In a significant move that would bring much joy to dog lovers but dismay from dog meat lovers; the state cabinet Friday banned commercial import and trading of dogs, dog markets and sale of dogs in the State.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Informing this to Nagaland Post, High Powered Committee (HPC) spokesperson and adviser Mmhonlumo Kikon said the decision was taken in response to a letter written months back by Maneka Gandhi BJP MP and former union minister. He said the decision was kept pending due to the current pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>State chief secretary Temjen Toy, in a tweet, also announced the ban on commercial import and trading of dogs, dog markets and also the sale of dog meat, both cooked and uncooked.<\/p>\n<p>Mokokchung police file case: Meanwhile, Mokokchung police has filed a suo-moto case at Mangkolemba police station over reports about a shoot-at-sight incident of a dog that reportedly took place at Changki village. In a press note, SP Mokokchung Vishal said police arrested those involved in the alleged shooting incident. SP said it was a clear violation of the DC&rsquo;s order that warned of legal action against any village authorities, wards, individuals\/group acting in contravention to Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further, the SP disclosed a 12 Bore SSBL was used to shoot the dog and a the arm and the empty shell were seized and under police custody for further investigation.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State govt orders total ban on dog meat, trade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}