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The plea filed by an advocate Subham Awasthi has also sought issuance of guidelines for creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to tackle such incidents and filling up of vacancies in forest forces across the country. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices R Subhash Reddy and AS Bopanna issued notice to Centre and 13 States including Kerala and sought their responses.

Other States made party in the petition include Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. The plea sought directions to make necessary amendments in the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Act, 1960, to enhance punishments for causing cruelty against animals making it more stringent.

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