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On Wednesday (August 13, 2025), India’s chief judge agreed to deal with an urgent request for a case of community dogs in the background of August 11, who ordered to be rounded from the streets in Delhi and detained in shelters up to six to eight weeks.
In an urgent mention, the lawyer reported the chief judge about the order to deal with a stray top compassion on May 9, 2024.
The advisor read from the order on the Supreme Court bench, led by JK Maleshwari, that “at all circumstances there can be no different killing of canines and the authorities must take steps in terms of mandate and spirit of prevailing legislation”.
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The Top Court heard a dose of petitions led by the Indian Council for Animal Care Compared to Humans for the elimination of stray problems on whether the central legislation, including the Act on Establishment of Animals of 1960 and the 2001 animal contraception, prevailed over the city laws.
“There is no profit in that the manifestation of compassion for all living beings is an enshrined constitutional value and mandate and casts a commitment to the authorities,” stressed Judges Maleshwari and Sanjay Karol.
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The ranking of August 11 was the bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan caused a stir between activists, personalities and organizations for animal rights who claimed that there were not enough pounds to place 5,000 community dogs. They also pointed out that the pressure of capturing so many community dogs from the streets would slip the confusion and actions of animal abuse.
“I’ll look at it,” the main judge Gavai assured.
11th August, the bench headed by the pardiwala justice warned that anyone who is trying to resist stray canines to be selected or rounded up will face contempt of the action from the Supreme Court.
The Top Court stated that the authorities should “first start lifting from all locations, especially vulnerable in the city of AO.
In the case of Suo Mot in growing cases of vicious dog attacks on children, including infants.
The Court focused on the shouting that protected stray dogs and asked if activists for the rights of animals would be able to return the children of the lost angry stray canines to their parents.
The bench of justice Pardiwala said that the situation with stray dogs was “extremely grim” across the capital, Noida, Grrabogram and Ghaziabad.
The pardiwala justice said the court’s instructions were in the best public interest and ended the threat.
Published – August 13, 2025 12:03
