Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing Of Plea Against MCD Circular On Picking Up Stray Dogs

The Supreme Court today refused to urgently list an application filed in the Stray Dogs matter against a circular statedly issued by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for the picking-up of stray dogs.

The application was mentioned before a bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi. The bench however turned down the request for urgent listing, pointing out that orders have been reserved in the stray-dog matter by a 3-judge bench led by Justice Vikram Nath.

When the counsel who mentioned the application clarified that orders have been reserved on the interim prayers, but he was mentioning a fresh application in a connected case that is also listed tomorrow alongwith the writ petition raising stray dogs issue, Justice Maheshwari said, "in reserved cases, we can't...".

To recap, on August 14, a 3-judge bench led by Justice Nath reserved orders on pleas to stay the directions passed by a two-judge bench of the Court on August 11 to shift the stray dogs in Delhi National Capital Region to shelter homes.

During the hearing, Justice Nath asked if the authorities had already started picking up the dogs, even though the August 11 order was uploaded only a day before. On this, an answer was given by the petitioners in the affirmative. The hearing concluded with the judge remarking, "Local authorities are not doing what they should be doing. They should be here taking responsibility. Everyone who has come here to file intervention should take responsibility".

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