Stray Dogs Case Hearing LIVE: Three-judge bench reserves order on stray dogs issue

Supreme Court Hearing on Stray Dogs LIVE Updates: The Supreme Court, while reserving its order on a plea seeking a stay on its August 11 directive, remarked on Thursday that the stray dog issue in Delhi-NCR stems from the “inaction” of local authorities.

While hearing the matter on Thursday, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath said, “The whole problem is because of the inaction of local authorities”, PTI reported.

On August 11, a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan observed instances of dog bites had given rise to an “extremely grim” situation and ordered the permanent relocation of all strays in Delhi-NCR “at the earliest”.

On Wednesday, the lawyer referred to a May 2024 order passed by a bench led by Justice J K Maheshwari relegating petitions relating to the stray dog issue to respective high courts.

The plea by Conference for Human Rights (India) claims the Animal Birth Control (Dog) Rules, 2001 mandating regular sterilisation and immunisation programmes for stray dogs to curtail their growing population are not being complied with.

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