Shillong, May 16 -- A division bench of the Meghalaya High Court has directed the state government to form a monitoring committee to address the stray dog menace in the state.
The bench comprising Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice Wanlura Diengdoh ordered that the monitoring committee must be formed within four weeks to oversee the implementation of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme in terms of rule 4 of the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001. Thereafter, the committee shall discharge its functions according to rule 5 which outlines the responsibilities of the monitoring committee in implementing the programme.
The monitoring committee is tasked with overseeing the catching, transportation, sheltering, sterilization, vacci...