Sri Lanka, Sept. 6 -- After a string of stray dog bites, The Indian Supreme Court on August 11, 2025 ordered the removal of all street dogs in Delhi to shelters. The bench comprised of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan, but after public protests, the order was later stayed and modified on August 22, 2025, by a different three-judge bench that included the above-mentioned judges too.
The earlier ruling was modified and the bench ruled instead that dogs must be caught, vaccinated, sterilised and returned to their neighbourhoods - but with a caveat that aggressive dogs and those carrying rabies should be moved to shelters. Justice Vikram Nath, who headed the second bench, joked that "stray dogs have made me famous all over the ...