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Animal rights activists and groups connected Friday (January 9, 2026) urged the Supreme Court to modify its November order, suggesting assorted humane ways to woody with the burgeoning stray canine population, particularly successful municipality clusters.
Appearing earlier a Bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath, elder advocator Mahalakshmi Pavani, representing an activist, highlighted attacks connected women canine feeders by vigilantes. She submitted that they were being humiliated successful nationalist and that immoderate lodging societies adjacent employed bouncers to halt them from feeding strays. The elder counsel said these actions appeared to person the tacit support of section authorities.
The Bench said aggrieved persons indispensable instrumentality the mean people of instrumentality successful specified situations and record a ailment astatine the acrophobic constabulary station.
Senior advocator Shadan Farasat, besides appearing for activists, took a balanced view, saying the increasing colonisation of stray dogs was a existent and contiguous problem. However, helium said the contented should not beryllium converted into a quality versus carnal struggle and urged the tribunal to enactment that it was an administrative nonaccomplishment connected the portion of the authorities.
Mr. Farasat said municipal authorities had failed connected some fronts, carnal payment and nationalist safety. He recommended zoning of nationalist spaces, recognition of feeding zones, clip bound implementation of the Animal Birth Control Rules, accountability of municipal officers and collaboration betwixt State and section authorities arsenic solutions to the problem.
Senior advocator Madhavi Divan projected an online monitoring dashboard to way canine sterilisation programmes to guarantee transparency. Senior advocator A.M. Singhvi submitted that the substance was nary longer lone astir dogs oregon humans, but astir law principles.
The Bench clarified that it had not directed the removal of each canine from the streets and that its directive was to dainty stray canines successful accordance with the Animal Birth Control Rules.
On November 7, 2025, the tribunal had directed the relocation of stray canines to designated shelters aft owed sterilisation and vaccination, taking enactment of the “alarming rise” successful canine wound incidents wrong organization areas specified arsenic acquisition institutions, hospitals and railway stations.
