STRAY DOG CASES; SUPREME COURT HEARING- LIVE UPDATES

Mehta: we are unable to send the children out to play in the open. This is my stand not the government's stand. Your lordships will have to find a solution. Ultimately the solution is not in the Rules. A vocal minority view as against the silent suffering majority view.

Mehta: 37 lakhs a year, 10k per day. This is dog bites. Rabies deaths - 305 deaths for the same year, WHO's modelling shows much higher number.

Nobody is an animal hater.

Mehta: Children are dying. I will have Miss Dave show photographs. Sterilization does not stop rabies. Even if you immunize that does not stop mutilation of children.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta: there is a very loud vocal minority and silent suffering majority. I have seen people posting videos of eating meat etc and then claiming to be animal lovers.

Hearing commenced

Earlier, a bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan had passed directions for the shifting of all Delhi stray dogs to dog shelters/pounds with immediate effect:

A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice NV Anjaria will hear the matter.