India, July 16 -- Will MCC please act assertively?

Sir,

I wish to draw the attention of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner and officials to an incident of misplaced compassion and vigilante behaviour of some citizens in the context of rounding up street dogs for sterilisation in Kuvempunagar.

After persistent complaints about unsterilised street dogs in the neighbourhood, the MCC dog squad arrived and started to round up such dogs. After sterilisation, as per the standard operating procedure, they would be released exactly at the same spot where they were found.

When this was going on, a person from the neighbourhood, who fed these dogs daily, started interfering with the process very aggressively and forcefully released t...