Court:
5. Authorities to take a decision on expanding this court's directions to other public spaces characterized by high footfall and public utility including places of public congregation and transit having regard to the necessity of ensuring the safe and secure environment for the public. Such decision to be taken on careful assessment of the ground realities risk to public safety and functional nature of such places.
Court:
3. Having regard to population density and territorial extent of each district decision to be taken regarding expansion of the number of ABC centres.
4. States and union territory shall take all necessary measures to implement the directions should buy the port in letter as well as in spirit without delay or dilution
Court: Directions -
1. States and uts to take decisive and coordinated time bound steps for enhancing and augmenting in necessary infrastructure for ABC framework.
2. Ensure establishment of at least one fully functional ABC centre in each district duly equip with requisite infrastructure and trained personnel surgical facilities and supporting logistics.
Court: the constitution of India does not envisage a society where children elderly persons and vulnerable citizens are compeller to survive at the mercy of physical strength, chance or circumstance due to failure of the state machinery to decided constitutional and statutory obligations. The fundamental guarantee under article 21 exists to ensure that the weak and vulnerable are afforded equal protection of light safety and dignity under the constitutional order.
Court: such conditions are permitted to continue unchecked, the inevitable consequence may lead to a regression towards the darwinian theory of evolution namely the survival of the fittest would effectively govern civic life in public spaces. Such a situation would be wholly incompatible with constitutional democracy governed by rule of law.
Court: this code cannot remain oblivious to the half and deeply disturbing around realities emerging from various parts of the countries where young children and elderly persons have been attacked ordinary citizen have been left vulnerable in public places and even international travellers have fallen to such incidents.
Court: article 21 necessary and compasses the right of every citizen to move freely an access public faces without living under a constant apprehension of physical attack or exposure to life threating events such as dog bites in public areas. The state cannot remain a passive spectator where preventable threats to human life continue to proliferate in the face of statutory mechanism specifically designed to address them.
Court: States and UTs are under constitutional obligation to ensure the protection of the front talent mental right to life and safety of citizens under article 21. This casts a duty to take effective and necessary measures to prevent conditions that cause a threat to public safety health and well being, including creation augmentation and 15 maintenance of educate infrastructure for effective implementation of ABC framework
Court: continued non compliance or apathy will open the concerned officials and authorities to appropriate proceedings including contempt of court and disciplinary proceedings
Court mentions various news reports regarding dog bites and rabies deaths.
Court: the directions of the court and the statutory framework have not yet adequately percolated to the ground level. Continued occurrence of such incidents reflects serious deficiency in implementation and enforcement on part of the concerned authorities.