SC Orders Delhi-NCR Purge of All Stray Dogs in Eight Weeks

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Delhi government and the civic authorities of Delhi-NCR to round up all stray dogs at the earliest and put them in dog shelters to be set up by the civic authorities of Gurugram, Noida, and Ghaziabad within eight weeks.

- Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty @ New Delhi

The ruling by a bench of justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan came on a suo motu case initiated by it over the spike in incidents of dog bites leading to rabies. The bench also directed that the dog shelters should have sufficient personnel to sterilize and immunize the dogs, asid