The bench, however, said municipal authorities shall continue to comply with the direction asking them to start picking up and rounding stray dogs from all localities of Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram.The apex court said the August 11 direction prohibiting the release of picked up stray dogs shall be kept in abeyance for the time being.”The dogs that are picked up shall be sterilised, dewormed, vaccinated and released back in the same area from which they were picked up,” it said.The bench clarified this relocation shall not apply to dogs infected with rabies or suspected to be infected with rabies and those that display aggressive behaviour.The top court passed the order on the interim prayer seeking a stay on some of the directions passed on August 11 by a two-judge bench.The bench delivered its order on Friday in a suo motu case initiated on July 28 over a media report on stray dog bites leading to rabies, particularly among children, in the national capital.Widespread protests were reported across the country following the apex court’s August 11 order.Later, the matter came up for hearing on August 14 before a three-judge special bench which observed the “whole problem” of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR was a result of the “inaction” of local authorities which did “nothing” in implementing the Animal Birth Control Rules on sterilisation and immunisation of canines.
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