The court forced to change the name of the lions that were nicknamed after the Hindu deity A court in India has ordered a prison in the sta...

 The court forced to change the name of the lions that were nicknamed after the Hindu deity

A court in India has ordered a prison in the state of West Bengal to change the names of some lions after a group of Hindus complained that it was insulting to their religion.

The first lion, she was originally named after a Hindu goddess called Sita, and then the lion called Akbar, which also originated from a leader of the Mughal Empire in the 16th century.

The Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad challenged this in court, saying that the name given to the zakanya is blasphemy in the Hindu religion.

On Thursday, the court said that animals should not be named after Hindu deities, Islamic prophets, Christian scholars, Nobel laureates and libertarians.