India, Nov. 20 -- Scores of people gathered at Jantar Mantar on the afternoon of November 19 to protest the Supreme Court's recent order that allows removal of stray dogs from their natural habitat, including from educational institutions and hospitals, after vaccination and sterilisation. Protestors said the order violates the Animal Birth Control Rules 2023, which require that dogs be released in the same locality from where they are captured.

Protestors said the court's direction unfairly penalises all stray dogs instead of focusing on aggressive animals alone. "The general rule is that you put the guilty in jail, not the entire population. But here instead of putting the few aggressive dogs inside, the apex court has asked the entire...