Pharmaceutical major Ranbaxy has in a statement today stressed that it has in no way violated the law of the land in importing 50 Beagle dogs for research-related drug-testing at its laboratories in Okhla. The Beagles have over the last one week attracted the attention of animal-rights activists who, through these columns, have vociferously opposed the use of the dogs for drug research on the ground they will be subjected to extreme cruelty.