Kerala High Court was sensitive to the ‘desperate purr’ of three cats when their owner approached them to avoid a lockdown CATastrophe.
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00:00When once the police refused pass to go for purchasing the cat food, I have no other way but to file the petition.
00:30My argument in the court was that the pets also should live and Article 21 of the constitution
00:48is also available to them as was held by the Supreme Court in my Animal Welfare Board case.
00:57Being a Brahmin, no non-veteran food is prepared in my home and these cats eat biscuits three times a day.
01:06Earlier I was procuring them from a pet shop near to my house and after the start of this lockdown, it is not available there.
01:15I enquired with the pet shop at Cochinum pet shop at Ernakulam and they said it is available there.
01:22The distance from my home to that shop is about 7 km.
01:31These biscuits are used to be given to the Persian cats and it contains various ingredients which will prevent any sort of diseases.
01:43That is why the necessity for obtaining the pass and for that I explained these facts in detail and sent a request to the police for e-pass and it was rejected.
01:57The court was very considerate towards the issue raised and the judges were also pointing out that the pets should also live.
02:20Ultimately the judge said that I can go to the pet house to purchase the cat food with a declaration of my own accompanied by a copy of the judgement.
02:33Such a usage of the word cat in the ultimate sentence cat-oscrophy speaks volumes.
02:55Just cat food?
02:56Yes, just cat food.
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