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The Supreme Court’s absorption connected Friday (November 7, 2025) to municipal authorities to “remove” stray dogs from nationalist places and displacement them to shelters for sterilisation and vaccination does not analyse whether these agencies person the infrastructure oregon abstraction to instrumentality the bid with compassion and without inflicting unnecessary symptom and suffering connected the animals.
Article 51A(g) mandates that it is the cardinal work of each Indian national to “have compassion for surviving creatures”. Section 3 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 requires “persons having complaint of animals” to guarantee their well-being and forestall causing them “unnecessary symptom oregon suffering”.
“All surviving creatures person inherent dignity and a close to unrecorded peacefully and close to support their well-being which encompasses extortion from beating, kicking, over-driving, over-loading, tortures, symptom and suffering, etc,” the Supreme Court had observed successful its 2014 judgement successful Animal Welfare Board versus A. Nagaraja connected the signifier of Jallikattu.
In Friday’s order, the Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath noted however administrative indifference implicit the past years had led to “preventable” instances of stray canine attacks connected guiltless persons, undermining the law warrant of the close to beingness and information nether Article 21. The tribunal noted that implementation of the Animal Birth Control Rules had been “ineffective, to accidental the least, crossed jurisdictions”.
Exactly 10 years ago, successful November 2015, the Supreme Court had held it was the “sacrosanct duty” of section authorities to guarantee that determination were capable facilities, including canine shelters.
“It is the work of each municipal corporations to supply infrastructure arsenic mandated successful the statute [1960 Act] and the Rules. Once that is done, we are disposed to deliberation for the contiguous that a equilibrium betwixt compassion to dogs and the lives of quality beings, which is appositely called a glorious acquisition of nature, whitethorn harmoniously co-exist,” a two-judge Bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra (now retired) had observed successful Animal Welfare Board of India vs People For Elimination Of Stray Troubles successful 2015.
The tribunal had ordered municipal authorities successful 2015 to guarantee the availability of canine vans with ramps for seizure and transportation, drivers and canine catchers for these vans, ambulance-cum-clinical vans arsenic mobile centres for sterilisation and immunisation, incinerators for disposal of carcasses, and periodic repairs of shelters.
However, the bid appears to person been followed successful breach, arsenic suggested by the “alarming increase” successful stray canine attacks.
