Venugopal: In NK Ranjit Singh, J Narasimha had... ... Stray Dogs Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 2]

Venugopal: In NK Ranjit Singh, J Narasimha had said CSR Funds can be utilized for environmental purposes...so those can be utilized. For the SOP concerning AWBI, there are 2-3 problems. They have modified their own requirements for constructing the shelters. Dogs can actually jump over upto 8 ft fences. This has been reduced to 6 ft! Now they are authorizing [unknown] people [to capture dogs] leading to killing

Sr Adv Dhruv Mehta (for an applicant): Applicant filed writ petition before Delhi HC over non-implementation of ABC Rules. HC invited status report, then just issued direction for implementation of law. Rules talk of constitution of a monitoring committee. One of its function is...Census is essential. Last was in 2009. 5,60,000 dogs were there in Delhi alone. Rule 11 talks of capturing, etc. Rule 11(6) says only a stipulated no. of animals according to housing capacity of the centres should be captured. CAPACITY IS NOT THERE! so where would you keep them?