India, Dec. 23 -- Senior animal welfare activists, a senior advocate, and community animals' caregivers held a high impact press conference in Chandigarh on Monday to highlight the gross illegal activities of the municipal corporation (MC) causing repeated cruelty to community dogs.

The press conference included advocate Sidharth Arora, lawyer at the Punjab and Haryana high court, Deeksha Bhalaik, a senior policy professional with an international animal rights organisation, Harsh Gupta, an animal welfare activist , advocate and a veteran animal feeder, caregiver and volunteer at SPCA.

They pointed out that the latest orders to pick up dogs from institutions in the city grossly violates the directives of the Supreme Court's November 7th...