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Obstructing a person from feeding stray dogs in non-designated areas not wrongful restraint: HC

December 23, 2025 9:31 pm

As per the FIR, when the complainant went to a housing society in Hinejwadi to feed street dogs, the accused and other members of the society objected.

The court warned that if it finds inaction in removing the stray dogs, it may direct the personal appearance of the commissioner of the local civic body.

Madhya Pradesh High Court directs removal of stray dogs from Indore, cites Supreme Court verdict

December 23, 2025 10:31 pm

Madhya Pradesh HC Verdict on Stray Dogs: Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Binod Kumar Dwivedi ordered the civic body to submit an action-taken report before the court by January 13, 2026 which will include detailed data on the sterilisation of stray dogs.

The SC took up the matter suo motu in July this year, after media reports highlighted serious and fatal attacks by stray dogs in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). (Source: File Photo)

'Will play a video in next hearing... ask what humanity is': SC as petitioners object to MCD's rules on stray dogs

December 19, 2025 4:16 am

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta made the remarks after senior advocate Kapil Sibal pointed out that the matter, which was due to come up before a three-judge bench, stood cancelled.

The question before us is no longer only about stray dogs, portals or paperwork. It is about the kind of country we are becoming — one where belonging is earned through compliance, or one where it is safeguarded as a human right (PTI/File)

In the age of verification, home is a question, a new geography of belonging

December 13, 2025 1:42 pm

Judicial, digital and administrative reforms are reshaping how citizens experience vulnerability and home

'No dog, no vote': protest rally in Pune against Animal Welfare Board's SOP for management of stray dogs

December 08, 2025 12:57 pm

Animal activist Mariam Abuhaideri led the protest and called for youth engagement and non-partisan accountability from political parties for the welfare of stray dogs.

Gurgaon civic body awards contract to MP-based NGO

'Rs 700 to sterilise each stray dog too little': Skepticism as Gurgaon civic body awards NGO 2-year contract

November 30, 2025 9:59 am

The MCG has awarded the contract to Maa Baglamukhi Sewa Samiti, based out of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, for carrying out sterilisation and mass anti-rabies vaccination of stray dogs across all four zones of the city under the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules.

Citizens urged to provide details on stray dog feeding to help designate feeding spots

November 27, 2025 8:34 pm

Many citizens have already come forward and are submitting information about the feeding of stray dogs.

‘Care, not cages’: Protest in Gurgaon against SC order on removal of stray dogs from schools, hospitals, rail stations

'Need care, not cages': Protest in Gurgaon against SC's latest stray dogs order

November 24, 2025 11:48 am

Dozens of people gathered at Gurgaon's Galleria Market on Sunday evening to protest against the order

Supreme Court’s order on street dogs is inhumane — and anti-science

Supreme Court’s order on stray dogs is inhumane, anti-science and anti-law

November 12, 2025 9:00 am

As someone who has spent a lifetime working for animals, I can say this with absolute certainty: This order will not protect citizens; it will only create cruelty on a scale unseen before. It will not solve the community dog conflict; it will inflame it.

For a country that believes in non-violence, SC order on stray dogs should be unacceptable

November 11, 2025 1:18 pm

If everyday officials, ward officers, veterinary inspectors, panchayat staff, transport cops are trained to see animals as subjects whose suffering matters, then they are being trained, daily, to see weak lives as worthy of care. That is precisely the muscle we need to protect pavement dwellers, migrants, and forest-dependent communities