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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) refused to modify its November 7, 2025 order directing each States and Union Territories to guarantee the removal of stray dogs from high-footfall nationalist institutions, including acquisition institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, autobus depots, and railway stations.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N.V. Anjaria observed said, “Right to beingness with dignity encompasses the close to unrecorded freely without menace of harm from a canine wound attack. The State cannot stay a passive spectator. The tribunal cannot stay oblivious to harsh crushed realities wherever children, planetary travellers, aged property radical person fallen unfortunate to canine wound incidents.”
“The Constitution doesn’t envisage a nine wherever children, aged radical are to past connected the mercy of carnal strength,” the Bench added.
The tribunal said the occupation had acquired “staggering dimensions” and that the “continued recurrence of specified incidents” reflected deficiencies successful the effectual implementation of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023, framed nether the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
The Bench further directed that officials failing to instrumentality its directions would beryllium liable to look contempt proceedings arsenic good arsenic disciplinary action.
The directions successful the November 2025 bid were issued successful the apex court’s suo motu proceedings aimed astatine framing a nationalist model for stray canine absorption and ensuring compliance with existing statutory regulations.
