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A writ petition has been filed successful the Madras High Court challenging the Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) insistence connected obtaining licences for each favored dogs successful the metropolis earlier November 24, too making it compulsory to muzzle those dogs whenever they are taken to nationalist places for a locomotion oregon different purposes.
Justice V. Lakshminarayanan connected Friday (November 14, 2025)adjourned the proceeding connected the plea to November 25 and directed GCC counsel A. Arun Babu to get instructions by past connected each concerns raised by People for Cattle successful India, which had filed the lawsuit for framing humane, proportionate, and evidence-based regulations.
When the justice wanted to cognize however galore favored dogs could perchance beryllium determination successful the full of Chennai and however galore had got registered till now, the counsel replied that the civic assemblage expects the full fig of favored dogs wrong its territory to beryllium astir 1 lakh and that 31,000 dogs had got registered till now.
Expressing doubts if determination could beryllium lone 1 lakh favored dogs successful the full city, the justice said: “I myself person 3 dogs astatine home.” Even going by the figures submitted by the counsel, helium wondered whether the GCC would beryllium capable to implicit registration of 69,000 dogs earlier the cut-off day of November 24.
To this, the counsel replied that the corp had been registering astir 5,000 dogs a time and that the web portal had crashed for lone 1 time erstwhile the registration process was hampered. He besides said, the GCC would instrumentality a telephone connected extending the clip bounds aft assessing the fig of applications received till November 24.
When the petitioner’s counsel B. Prashanth Nadaraj complained astir the insistence connected muzzling the favored dogs successful nationalist places, the justice said: “I bash muzzle my dogs whenever I instrumentality them for a locomotion due to the fact that once, my labrador, considered to beryllium a docile animal, ended up biting an advocator during his greeting walk.”
However, erstwhile the counsel said, it would beryllium hard to muzzle immoderate breeds specified arsenic bulldogs, the justice said that contented would beryllium considered connected the adjacent day of proceeding aft Mr. Babu obtains instructions from the GCC connected each issues that had been raised successful the writ petition.
The justice besides told the GCC counsel that immoderate radical whitethorn support dogs successful their custody lone for a constricted play of clip until those animals get adopted by idiosyncratic else. He wanted to cognize whether specified individuals, who supply impermanent shelter, should besides get the dogs registered.
In its affidavit, the NGO wondered however the GCC could restrict issuance of favored canine licences to lone 4 for each idiosyncratic and said, the regulations bash not carve retired immoderate explicit exemption for rescue organisations, foster attraction providers, and rehabilitative custodians who grip injured, abandoned, and sick animals.
Stating the petitioner NGO had rescued 4 labradors, 1 dachshund, and 1 mixed-breed pup abandoned successful Chennai successful the past 10 days, the NGO said, the spike successful the fig of dogs being abandoned could beryllium due to the fact that of the projected good of ₹5,000 that the GCC contemplates to levy connected owners of unlicensed dogs.
