00:00it's a landmark supreme court order on the stray dog menace the top court has now asked
00:11delhi ncr governments to round up all stray dogs the bench of justices pardiwala and mahadevan has
00:18said catch and relocate strays to shelters sterilize stray dogs with no exceptions in fact
00:25the supreme court has warned those who are stopping the anti-stray crackdown saying that young
00:31children cannot fall prey to rabies they've also pointed out that we need more shelters staff and
00:37helpline to tackle this menace and has warned that activism cannot bring the dead back to life
00:43the supreme court remember had taken swomoto cognizance in july of the stray dog menace
00:48after news reports of children being attacked by strays in delhi ncr
00:53this is a very very important development coming in from the supreme court viewers the supreme court
01:04bench has effectively gone against the awbi rules the court in fact saying that forget about the rules
01:12specifically right now you must catch and send the dogs to the shelters because the sheer number of
01:19stray dogs is a very very serious situation remember this swomoto petition had been taken up by the
01:25supreme court after multiple attacks on children by stray dogs in delhi and today the bench has clearly
01:33directed the civic authorities in delhi and ncr to immediately catch and sterilize stray dogs and
01:39against the rules that call for relocating them back to the place they were picked up from the supreme court
01:46making it very clear that the stray dogs will not go back to the gullies and the parks they will now
01:52have to go to a dedicated dog shelter the government has now been given eight weeks time to set up an
02:00initial dog shelter in delhi which can take care of at least 5000 dogs this is has to be done within the
02:07next eight weeks also the court has said that there have to be dedicated helplines where people can call
02:13and complain if there is a dog bite incident especially if there is a rabbit dog in the area
02:19and action has to be taken within four hours of receiving that complaint the court also saying that
02:25you have to have trained staff which can catch sterilize and keep the stray dogs in the shelters
02:32remember the uh animal welfare board of india rules have already for the last several years
02:39talked about sterilizing and vaccinating dogs and keeping any aggressive dogs in the shelters but so far
02:47delhi ncr did not have enough of an infrastructure now the court saying
02:52take action immediately and do not send the dogs back to the streets where they can attack children
02:57do not feel safe nor work done at any time
03:03you
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