New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to halt the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) newly notified stray dog policy, which mandates a revised sterilisation-and-release programme, imposes steep financial penalties on NGOs, and introduces compulsory designated feeding points across the city. Rejecting a request for urgently examining the plea, a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta refused to advance the hearing and noted that the broader batch of cases on stray dogs is already scheduled for January 7. The bench turned down senior advocate Kapil Sibal's request for an expedited hearing to scrutinise and suspend the policy, which will come into effect from December 21. Sibal pointed out that the MCD's new...