What is PETA and how it works ?

Celebrities who have worked with PETA India include John Abraham, Shahid Kapoor, Rahul Khanna, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Celina Jaitly, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Yana Gupta, Gulshan Grover, Mahima Chaudhary, Hema Malini, Atul Kasbekar, Jiah Khan, Raveena Tandon Thadani, Rahul Dev, Hemant Trevedi, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kumble, R Madhavan, Amisha Patel, Eesha Narang, Malaika Arora Khan, Shatrughan Sinha, World Billiards champion Pankaj Advani and Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, just to name a few.

Contributions

PETA India is a company limited by guarantee not for profit under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. Donations to PETA India qualify for deduction u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

PETA India filed a case in the Supreme Court concerning the substandard and inhumane state of zoos across the country.

PETA India also released an in-depth report and video on the fishing industry, exposing violations of laws, environmental devastation, risks to human health and horrendous animal suffering.

Following PETA India’s campaign against keeping animals in zoos, the Central Zoo Authority banned the imprisonment of elephants in zoos and circuses. After exposing cruel conditions at the National Institute of Virology (NIV), PETA India helped rescue 39 animals from NIV’s laboratory.