India’s Supreme Court orders employees to move stray dogs to Delhi shelters

The best court in India has ordered the Authorities in Delhi and its suburbs to move all stray dogs from streets to animal shelters.

The court expressed concerns about the growing “threat of dog bites leading to rabies” and gave an eight -week period to employees to complete the task.

The population of Delhi’s stray dogs is estimated at one million, such as the suburban Noid, Gaziabad and Gururgram also see the rise, say municipal sources.

India has millions of stray dogs, and the country represents 36% of the total death in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

“Babies and young children, not at any cost, should become a prey to rabies. The action must inspire confidence that they can move freely without fear of being bitten by stray dogs,” says the Legal News Live Live Law, citing the court on Monday.

The court has taken the question after reports of increasing dog bites in Delhi and other major cities.

The court directed that in Delhi and his suburbs, he imposed many shelters, each of which was capable of home at least 5,000 dogs. These shelters must be equipped with sterilization and vaccination facilities, as well as CCTV cameras.

The Court ruled that sterilized dogs should not be placed in public areas, although these rules requiring their return to the scene of capture.

He also ordered a one -week help line to report dog bites and rabies.

However, animal welfare groups expressed serious concerns about the court directive. They said that the timeline created by the court was unrealistic.

“At present, most Indian cities do not even have 1% of the capacity (needed) to rehabilitate stray dogs in the shelters,” says Nillesh Bhanage, founder of PAWs, a prominent animal rights group.

“If the court and the authorities actually want to end the threat, they must focus on strengthening the implementation of existing provisions for the control of the population of dogs and rabies – they include vaccination, sterilization and effective junk management.”

Government data show that in 2024 there were 3.7 million cases of dog bites across the country.

Activists say that the true degree of death related to rabies is not fully known.

The World Health Organization He says that “the real burden of rabies in India is not fully known; although according to the information available, it causes 18,000-20,000 deaths every year.”

On the other hand, according to Data provided in Parliament From the Indian government 54 deaths were recorded in 2024, compared to 50 in 2023.

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