In response to BWC’s appeal to the Trustees of the Goud Saraswat Brahman Temple Trust, Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, and to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, asking them to ensure that thousands of dead fish are not found floating in the Banganga Tank on the last day of Pitru Paksha again this year, no fish died in 2022 because dewatering pumps were installed for aeration purpose.

In April 2022, People for Cattle in India (whose PIL/Public Interest Litigation was supported by Beauty Without Cruelty) obtained another favourable order from the Madras High Court. The earlier order of 2016 had stopped camels from being slaughtered or sacrificed, whereas the recent final order included trafficking and reads “We dispose of it with a direction to the respondents to take all the measures to stop illegal trafficking of camel or slaughtering…” The Judges appreciated the effort of the petitioners.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India via a Notification declared that Silver Leaf or Chandi-ka-warq "shall not be manufactured using any material of animal origin at any stage" after 1 August 2017. BWC spent decades investigating, creating a public awareness, and convincing the Government of India to declare that varkh must be machine-made without using leather.

Following Beauty Without Cruelty’s complaints to the Environment Ministry officials, in January 2015, Assam banned bulbul-fights. The state also prohibited the traditional Bhogali/Magh Bihu cock and buffalo fights in compliance with a Supreme Court order.

In response to BWC’s request, in July 2014 the Government of India prohibited the import of Foie Gras – liver of ducks, geese or guinea fowls. Its production is extremely cruel: ducks are force fed several times a day with a funnel pushed down their throats till such time as their livers get ten times their normal size. They are then slaughtered and their diseased livers turned into a paste called Pâté de Foie Gras, consumed by gourmets.

In May 2013 on grounds of cruelty and commercialisation of wildlife the Ministry of Environment & Forests eventually rejected all proposals to set up dolphinariums in India. BWC’s first appeal about this was before the dolphin park at Mahabalipuram came up – and closed when the imported dolphins and sea lions died.

Argument citing illegality worked!
BWC effectively brought elephant polo to an end in India. In 2009 the Government of India had directed all captive elephants to be transferred to the Forest Department, and in 2010 the elephant had been declared as India’s heritage animal, thus BWC pointed out that the proposed elephant polo match at Jaipur was illegal. BWC was first successful in convincing the main sponsor to withdraw, following which, the state government was approached to cancel the event. The Royale Indian Rail Tours Ltd was also informed that it was illegal for them to promote exhibition elephant polo matches as part of the Maharajas’ Express Royal Sojourn.

Again in 2014, about 50% buffaloes, goats and chickens from India that were scheduled to be killed were saved.
Nevertheless in July 2015, it was a victory for animal rights activists when under pressure of a Supreme Court of Nepal injunction won on 24 November 2014 by the Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center, the Secretary of the Gadhimai Temple Trust declared “We have decided to completely stop the practice of animal sacrifice.”

Indian Cheese Vegetarian

As a result of a 7 year effort, in 1984 BWC persuaded the Government of India to impose a total ban on the import of animal rennet used in cheese-making. As this ban still exists, all Indian made cheese is free from animal rennet.