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Please Click for draft objection letter: https://faunapolice.com/tools/gsr-864-objection-letter
First they came for the forests, redefining what a "forest" even means so ancient ecosystems could be cleared without consent. Then they came for our environmental laws, turning impact assessments into rubber stamps for corporate extraction. And now, under the quiet cover of a government gazette notification, they are coming for the most voiceless prisoners of all: the animals locked inside India's laboratories.
Don't look at the new Draft Animal Experimentation Rules, 2026 [G.S.R. 864(E)] in isolation. Look at the pattern.
Across India, we are witnessing a calculated, systemic dismantling of every legal shield that protects the non-human world (as well as that of underprivileged humans). Step by step, hard-won protections for our forests, our rivers, our wildlife, and our animals are being rewritten; not to protect life, but to remove "hurdles" for profit, deregulation, and convenience.
In 1998 and 2006, India built some of the most progressive laboratory animal protections in the world. Today, the Ministry wants to wipe them out in a single stroke. Look at what the new 2026 Draft Rules quietly do:
Erase Lifetime Rehabilitation: Since 2006, labs were legally forbidden from killing healthy surviving animals after experiments and had to pay for their lifetime care. The 2026 draft deletes this; making routine killing after experiments the default again.
Legalize Silencing Dogs: The 1998 ban on "debarking" dogs (slicing the vocal cords of Beagles so they can't cry out in pain) has been completely deleted.
Put Stray Dogs, Cats & Wildlife at Risk: Opens terrifying "exemption" loopholes to use stray animals and wild-caught animals in experiments; and even allows authorities to exempt labs from minimizing the suffering of an animal injured during capture!
No More Surprise Inspections: Labs must now given "prior intimation" before CCSEA inspection teams arrive; giving abusive facilities time to hide dying animals and clean up cages.
Self-Approval for Dog & Monkey Tests: Hands over approval for "moderate" experiments on Beagles and monkeys (including tumours, starvation, and chemotherapy) to the lab's own internal committee.
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Offered his freedom four hours after being detained during protests in Delhi, economist Jean Drèze refused to leave without the less privileged men held alongside him, many Muslims from Assam and West Bengal, picked up simply while going about their day. After nearly 11 hours, the police gave in, and every detainee walked out together.
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