The Supreme Court on Monday sharply criticized state governments for failing to submit affidavits confirming compliance with its August directive to capture, sterilize, and release stray dogs across India. Expressing strong displeasure, the court noted that several stray dog attacks had been reported nationwide in the two months since its order.
Citing recent incidents, the bench highlighted multiple attacks in Maharashtra, including one in Pune where a child was mauled, and another in Bhandara district, where a pack of 20 dogs injured a young girl. In Kerala’s Kannur district, a man performing in a street play about stray dogs was ironically attacked during his act. Similar cases were also reported from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh—where a family of three was bitten—and from Warangal in Telangana within the past 48 hours.
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“Yet no reply has come from the state governments. Your country is being portrayed in a bad light internationally!” the apex court remarked angrily. “Two months were granted, yet there has been no response!”
The court directed all state and union territory governments to explain the delay and ordered the personal presence of all chief secretaries at the next hearing.
So far, only West Bengal, Telangana, and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi have filed compliance reports. However, the court noted that even these were not on record, as they were submitted during the Diwali holidays.
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