Day 2 of protests against SC stray dog order: 40 detained for marching towards Parliament
Police said Section 163 of the BNSS has been imposed near Parliament, and no gathering is allowed ahead of Independence Day and during the Monsoon Session. The protesters were released later
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A woman protests at Connaught Place, Tuesday. PTIAt least 40 people were detained on Tuesday afternoon after a group of dog lovers gathered near the Hanuman Mandir at Delhi’s Connaught Place to protest against the Supreme Court order directing removal of all stray dogs from the streets of Delhi-NCR. This is the second day in a row that animal activists have been detained for protesting against the order.
Protestors were detained at Civil Lines police station and Model Town police station on Tuesday after they allegedly began marching towards the Parliament. They were subsequently released around 7-8 pm, said police, adding that no case has been registered so far.
Police said Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has been imposed near Parliament, and no gathering is allowed ahead of Independence Day and during the House’s ongoing Monsoon Session.
The Delhi Police had earlier detained and later booked 27 people late Monday for holding a protest earlier in the day against the SC order.
A group of animal rights activists had given a call for a protest at Kartavya Path on Monday evening. “We want the dogs to be protected. There are no shelter homes to accommodate so many dogs. In the end, they will throw all the dogs outside Delhi, where they will die,” a caregiver told mediapersons while being escorted away by the police.
“As many as 27 people who gathered at Kartavya Path to protest were detained on Monday evening. They were later booked for violating the prohibitory orders under Section 223 (offense of disobedience to an order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Kartavya Path police station,” an officer said, adding that those booked did not take permission to hold the protest.
In Gurgaon, a peaceful demonstration was held at Galleria Market on Tuesday evening to protest SC order. Dozens showed up despite it being a weekday, said participants.
Sapna Dutt (63), a Gurgaon-based yoga teacher, who was at the protest, said, “We don’t want animals on the streets, even dogs don’t want to be on the roads. Mass sterilisations should have been held decades ago, but it wasn’t done.”
Sudhir Sachdeva (53), founder of Delhi-based Stand for Animals told The Indian Express, “The centres identified in NCR will not be sufficient. If correct measures towards vaccination and sterilisation are taken, rabies and overpopulation of stray dogs can be contained. But this order of removing them from the streets is not right, and not as per law (ABC rules).”
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