New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Expressing serious concerns about the menace of dog bites and rabies, the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered that all stray dogs in Delhi NCR must be shifted away from residential localities to shelters "at the earliest". The SC has directed the Government of Delhi, civic bodies, and authorities of Noida, Gurgaon, and Ghaziabad to shift the stray dogs to dedicated shelters within eight weeks.
A bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan which took suo motu cognisance of a media report about incidents of dog bites leading to rabies, also directed that stray dogs which have been picked up and moved to shelters should not be released back into the streets. The bench said that all localities should be...