December 14, 2018:

On Friday, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has again courted controversy, this time over a partridge that he gifted to chief minister Amarinder Singh.

The cricketer-turned-politician in his first meeting with the CM on his return from Pakistan, a trip that the CM was reportedly not happy about, gifted him a stuffed patridge.

This prompted a Ludhiana-based wild life activist to file a complaint with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau of Govt. of India.

The complainant, Dr Sandeep K Jain, a Ludhiana-based wildlife activist and Honourary State Animal Welfare Officer (a body of animal welfare board), claimed gifting partridge is a violation of the Wildlife Act.

“I have filed a complaint requesting the welfare board to probe how Sidhu gifted the partridge to the chief minister and how, the protected animal could cross the border and get the customs clearance,” said Jain, who is also a member of national inspection committee of Animal Welfare Board for prevention of cruelty during transportation, slaughter and sacrifice.

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