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Straying from the Law to Cage Compassion – Supreme Court’s diktat on street dogs – Part 2

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Just when it seemed the Supreme Court had overreached beyond repair with its August stray-dog directions,

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the Court returned on 7 November with a new order that appears to walk back the worst excesses, only to quietly introduce an entirely new layer of illegality. Yes, the Court has now “restored” the lawful principle of sterilise–vaccinate–return mandated under the ABC Rules, 2023, implicitly acknowledging that the earlier “zero-release” diktat was untenable. But beneath this veneer of correction lies a fresh wave of judicial law-making: new categories of dogs invented out of thin air (“aggressive dogs”), sweeping bans on dogs in institutions not authorised by any statute, mass-removal directions never contemplated by Parliament, and an expansion of executive-style micromanagement across schools, hospitals, stadiums, highways, bus depots, and railway stations.

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Straying from the Law to Cage Compassion – Supreme Court’s diktat on street dogs of national capital

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When the Supreme Court’s August 2025 order on street dogs dropped, it landed with all the subtlety of a bulldozer in a butterfly garden. In one sweep, the Bench declared that every single community dog in Delhi-NCR must be rounded up, carted off to shelters, and never set paw on its old street again dismissing, without ceremony, any voice of dissent from animal welfare groups. The problem? India already has a law for this, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 and that law says precisely the opposite: sterilise, vaccinate, and return them to their home turf, not exile them indefinitely. In the courtroom drama of “public safety versus compassion,” the scriptwriter here seems to have thrown the statute book out of the window.

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