Stray canines row listening to in Supreme Court to renew

The Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Friday (August 22, 2025), its ruling on a batch of interim pleas searching for a keep on its contentious August 11, 2025, suo motu directive requiring civic authorities in Delhi and 4 adjoining districts to seize all stray canines and confine them in shelters inside six to eight weeks.

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While reserving the case for judgment, a Bench led by Justice Vikram Nath, and likewise comprising Justices Sandeep Mehta and N.V. Anjaria, had remarked that native civic authorities had been failing of their responsibility to deal with the rising public well being dangers posed by stray canines.

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The Bench highlighted that Delhi recorded as many as 25,201 dog-bite circumstances in 2024 and mentioned that its instructions had been being issued within the bigger public curiosity. At the identical time, the order had directed authorities to make sure that canines in shelters are neither mistreated nor disadvantaged of meals and that susceptible animals are housed individually with entry to veterinary care.

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Published – August 22, 2025