A legal notice has been served on the government to take action against the owners of the horses which died in Cox's Bazar beach area in recent days.
On Monday, Supreme Court lawyer Syed Ahmed Kabir sent the notice on behalf of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), Youth Environment Society (YES) and People for Animal Welfare Foundation (PAW).
The notice asked13 respondents including the secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock to take legal action against the responsible within five days. Otherwise, the animal rights organisations would take legal action, said the notice.
Mentioning media news the notice said, about 200 horses are engaged in tourist entertainment in the Cox's Bazar beach and the owners failed to feed them during the pandemic.
As many as 40 horses died in March last year after the government had slapped restriction on public movement.
Twenty-one horses died in the last one month while the second wave of countrywide lockdown is in progress.
