SC: How many dogs do you want roaming in hosps?

The SC on Thursday continued hearing a suo motu case on the rising menace of stray dogs and dog bite incidents across the country, with the Bench repeatedly flagging the failure of municipal authorities and State governments to implement the animal birth control (ABC) ules.

- FPJ News Service

The hearing saw detailed submissions from advocates, animal welfare groups and affected residents, touching upon public safety, animal welfare, lack of infrastructure and conflicting rights.

A Bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria examined, among other issues, whether stray dogs should be present at all in institutional premises such as courts, schools and hospitals. The Court questioned whether citizens should be made to "suffer because of the authorities' failure to comply with the ABC rules," Bar & Bench and Live Law report.