Thursday, 29th May 2014, 06:30 PM IST

Known to be active when it comes to social causes, actress Celina Jaitly filed a police complaint against MLA Vinay Kore on behalf of PETA for cruelty and abuse of a young elephant named 'Sunder'.

The elephant had deep wounds and was chained for a long time, according to a health examination report. Celina joined hands with PETA and then decided to present this in the court of law.

Talking about the incident, Celina says,"I just could not take the constant flow of merciless evidence of Sunder's state pouring in from our brave undercover investigators of PETA India.Sunder's plight is heart rending, we are such hypocrites. On one hand we worship the elephant and on another we rip our God’s creation piece by piece so mercilessly and brutally. The irony in Sunder’s case being, he is tortured to be trained to work for God's own house. I am sure Gods are angry too. We had to do something and we did it. This is my way of devotion to Lord Ganpati." 

The police have received a complaint which says that, Section 11(1)(a) of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act and also Section 42 of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act which states that the animals must be provided hygiene and safe environment for a living, have been violated.