Caught between the dog lovers and haters are some residents who are trying to find a balanced solution without taking sides, but even they remain divided on the issue.
Animal lovers who opposed SC order desperately await a copy of it, which is yet to be uploaded on court website, even as Rajasthan HC & Goa govt have already called for actions citing it.
While a section including both individuals and groups such as RWAs have welcomed the move to remove strays, animal rights groups have termed the order ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’.
One of the most widely shared posts on Instagram about how to help stray dogs was by comic Vir Das. He urged people of Delhi-NCR to adopt an indie off the streets.
FIR was lodged under Section 223 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), ThePrint has learnt.
Earlier on Monday, a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, hearing a case on rabies-related deaths, issued an order for clearing Delhi-NCR streets of dogs.
Animal rights activists criticise judgment as short-sighted. Rescuers say solution lies in controlling stray population through vaccination and sterilisation, not in mass removal.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The Print has started a propaganda ever since the Supreme Court judgement on stray dogs.
The only solution to this stray dog issue is to declare strays as vermin. That would allow the common man – whose life is made miserable by these stray dogs, whose children are bitten and at times mauled to death and whose elderly parents are bitten or chased during their early morning walks – to initiate the culling of stray dogs. Mass culling of strays dogs is the only possible solution to this ever growing threat.
On a lighter note, pets is one issue on which my views do not overlap with the Editor’s. Share Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fear of large dogs.
The Print has started a propaganda ever since the Supreme Court judgement on stray dogs.
The only solution to this stray dog issue is to declare strays as vermin. That would allow the common man – whose life is made miserable by these stray dogs, whose children are bitten and at times mauled to death and whose elderly parents are bitten or chased during their early morning walks – to initiate the culling of stray dogs. Mass culling of strays dogs is the only possible solution to this ever growing threat.