Institute of Legal and Management Studies

In the wake of the Supreme Court direction on relocation of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR, an urgent mentioning was made today evening regarding the picking up of the community dogs by authorities even before the official court order is uploaded.

AOR Garima Sharma apprised the bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran that while the order of August 11 is yet to be uploaded on the official site of the Supreme Court, local authorities have begun the relocation drive.

" In West Delhi, the strays were picked up at 12 o'clock", she added.

To which the CJI replied, "I am looking into it."

As per the official website of the Supreme Court, the August 11 order has not been uploaded yet.

Notably, today morning also another matter relating to stray dogs was mentioned before the Chief Justice of India for urgent listing. The petition was filed by an organisation named Conference for Human Rights (India) in 2024, challenging a Delhi High Court's order in its PIL seeking directions for sterilisation and vaccination of community dogs in Delhi as per the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules.

On August 11, the bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan issued directions to the authorities in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to immediately start picking up stray dogs from all localities and shift them to dog shelters. The directions also extend to Noida, Gurugram and Ghaziabad.

The directions come after the bench took suo motu cognisance of a new report by The Times of India, which allegedly stated that a 6-year-old girl died due to dog bites.