PTI

New Delhi, November 16

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Bombay High Court’s commentary about these focused on safety and welfare of stray canine, together with feeding them, in Nagpur should undertake or put them up in canine shelter properties and bear bills for his or her upkeep.

The apex courtroom directed the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to take steps for most of the people to feed stray canine at acceptable areas, demarcated and recognized by them.

“You cannot insist that people who want to feed them must adopt them,” the courtroom noticed orally in the course of the listening to.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and J Ok Maheshwari additionally requested the general public to make sure no nuisance is attributable to feeding the stray canine.

The bench stated until the subsequent date of listening to no coercive steps must be taken in pursuance of the October 20 order of the excessive courtroom, which had ordered imposition of penalty of Rs 200 for each breach.

The apex courtroom was listening to petitions difficult the excessive courtroom order which stated no citizen of Nagpur and areas surrounding it shall feed or make any try and feed stray canine in public locations, gardens, and so forth.

The prime courtroom requested the municipal company and Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to file their responses as additionally take stand on the instructions given within the October 20 order.

“Till the next date of hearing, we deem it appropriate to stay the following observation:- ‘If these so called friends of stray dogs are really interested in protection and welfare of the stray dogs, they must adopt the stray dogs, take home the stray dogs or at least put them up in some good dog shelter homes and bear all the expenses for their registration with municipal authorities and towards their maintenance, health and vaccination’,” the bench stated.

It stated until the subsequent date of listening to, it will likely be open to the municipal company to notice down names and particulars of these creating public nuisance by feeding stray canine.

“Further, it will be open to the municipal corporation to also deal with the issue of nuisance caused by the stray dogs in accordance with law,” the bench stated.

The prime courtroom requested the lawyer showing for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation as as to whether the excessive courtroom order on the side of feeding and adopting stray canine is sensible.

The counsel stated she would take directions and prefer to put in an affidavit on the side of feeding stray canine.

Observing that the apex courtroom just isn’t an professional physique on this, the bench stated it wished to have the views of the municipal company in addition to AWBI.

One of the advocates showing within the matter stated the civic physique and AWBI can work collectively and supply a workable resolution.

“In the meantime, we have to stay certain parts of the order,” the bench orally noticed, including, “…we are not staying the order but do not take coercive steps.” The bench clarified that the continuing earlier than the excessive courtroom within the matter will proceed.

It stated the pleas can be heard together with a pending petition within the month of February subsequent yr.

The excessive courtroom had on October 20 additionally directed that if any individual is focused on feeding stray canine, he shall first undertake it, carry it house, register it with the municipal authorities or put it in some canine shelter house and “then showering his love and affection on it, may feed it while taking its personal care in all respect”.

In its order, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court had famous that previously the authorities had taken sure steps within the route of controlling the nuisance of stray canine, however they have been seen to be not sufficient to get rid of it and even scale back it.

“Accordingly, we direct in general that no citizen and no resident of Nagpur and areas surrounding it shall feed or make any attempt to feed the stray dogs in public places, gardens, etc. We further direct the Municipal Commissioner of Nagpur Municipal Corporation to ensure that no such feeding at any place except own homes of such persons shall be undertaken,” the excessive courtroom had stated.

It had additionally directed the commissioner of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to make sure no feeding of avenue canine takes place wherever aside from house of the canine feeder or within the canine shelter properties or some other authorised place.

“….we also direct him to impose appropriate penalty for any breach of these directions, which penalty may not be more than of Rs 200 for every breach as per the resolution already passed in this behalf by Nagpur Municipal Corporation,” the excessive courtroom had stated.