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Animal Rights Activist Ambika Shukla supported Supreme Court's modified decision on stray dogs and pointed out the failure of Animal Birth Control (ABC) program.
The Supreme Court on Friday modified its previous August 11 order, which had directed the rounding up of all stray dogs in the Delhi-NCR and prohibited their release from dog shelters. The court now allows the release of stray dogs back to the same area after sterilisation and immunisation. Shukla said that the animal civil authorities, health experts, animal welfarists, and animal behaviourists should work together so that the ABC program can run smoothly. "We welcome the decision of the Supreme Court. The dogs are not at fault in this case. The failure here is in the implementation by ABC. Now, civil authorities, health experts, animal welfarists, and animal behaviourists should work together so that this programme runs smoothly. But there is a problem in this Supreme Court order, as they have asked people who raised their voice for justice to pay... I request the Supreme Court to look into this order," Ambika Shukla told ANI. A three-judge bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria ruled that stray dogs must be released after sterilisation and immunisation, except those infected with rabies or exhibiting aggressive behaviour. The court said that infected stray dogs shall be sterilised and immunised, but under no circumstances shall they be released back into the streets, and as far as possible, they shall be kept in separate shelters or pounds after sterilisation and immunisation. "The dogs that are picked up shall be sterilised, dewormed, vaccinated, and released back to the same area from where they were picked up," it said while modifying the August 11 order, which directed that stray dogs shall not be released. The bench also restricted public feeding of stray dogs and directed the MCD to create dedicated feeding spaces in each municipal ward. "Under no condition shall the feeding of stray dogs on the streets be permitted. Dedicated feeding spaces of stray dogs to be created. There have been instances due to such feeding instances," said the bench. (ANI)
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