Official: TN court says Sc order on stray dogs to be extended to state
Chennai, Aug. 13 -- The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has observed that the Supreme Court's order on shifting community dogs in Delhi-NCR to shelters must be implemented in Tamil Nadu too, a senior counsel of the state government said, asking not to be named.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered picking of all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR within eight weeks, directing that they be housed in dog shelters to be created by appropriate authorities.
"The court made oral comments that they will issue instructions to Tamil Nadu's chief secretary," the senior counsel said.
The comments were made while the court was disposing of a batch of petitions related to stray cattle menace which has been pending before the court for four years.
HT could not independently verify which judge made the observation and an order on the case was not released. Muralidharan Sivalingam, an activist, said the case had come up before a two judge bench of justices SM Subramaniam and Arul Murugan. "They await SC orders to sign their current direction to TN Govt. to impound all stray dog in Tamil Nadu!" the activist said on X....
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