JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court on Friday asked state authorities to
form 'dog ponds' and implement the Animal Birth control (dog) rules
framed by the Central government in 2001 for stray dogs.
Senior advocate J K Singhi, counsel for NGO, Animal Help Society Ajmer which filed a petition, said as per the rules framed in 2001 under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, no government authority can pick a stray dog and throw it in the jungle or any other place outside its natural habitat.
Senior advocate J K Singhi, counsel for NGO, Animal Help Society Ajmer which filed a petition, said as per the rules framed in 2001 under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, no government authority can pick a stray dog and throw it in the jungle or any other place outside its natural habitat.
It was contended that the municipal bodies across the state were duty
bound under the rules to construct a 'dog pond' in each municipal limits
where such stray dogs can find shelter, food and medical help among
others. But no such dog pond was created by any local self governance
body in the state to regulate birth and life of stray dogs.
The petitioner said stray dogs were required to be vaccinated and immunized so that the rabies cannot spread. Bringing a glaring fact to the notice of the court, the petitioner also said the secretary of the NGO Dr. Shalini Gupta tried to bring the rules before the Ajmer municipal corporation, the additional collector asked the police to restrain Shalini and her sister Dr Sweeti Gupta from interfering in 'government work' with a warning that they will have to face the music if they continue.
The sisters intervened when ward no. 17 councillor Bharti Shrivastava made a complaint with the Ajmer municipal corporation of a huge number of stray dogs in the locality pursuant to which on March 23, 2011 as many as 17 stray dogs were caught by the officials and were being taken to be released in jungle around Ajmer.
Both the sisters rescued the stray dogs and the authorities were forced to return the animals back to their habitats. Later police were notified and a preventive order passed by SHO Christenganj, Ajmer, said, "In case both of you sisters repeat the act again and threaten the authorities to approach Maneka Gandhi, you will be booked and prosecuted for causing hindrance in government functions." It was this action of the ADM and the SHO Christianganj that make the sisters approach the high court for quashing of the preventive order besides seeking compliance of the rules framed for stray dogs.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-14/jaipur/32674778_1_stray-dogs-stray-animals-animal-birth
The petitioner said stray dogs were required to be vaccinated and immunized so that the rabies cannot spread. Bringing a glaring fact to the notice of the court, the petitioner also said the secretary of the NGO Dr. Shalini Gupta tried to bring the rules before the Ajmer municipal corporation, the additional collector asked the police to restrain Shalini and her sister Dr Sweeti Gupta from interfering in 'government work' with a warning that they will have to face the music if they continue.
The sisters intervened when ward no. 17 councillor Bharti Shrivastava made a complaint with the Ajmer municipal corporation of a huge number of stray dogs in the locality pursuant to which on March 23, 2011 as many as 17 stray dogs were caught by the officials and were being taken to be released in jungle around Ajmer.
Both the sisters rescued the stray dogs and the authorities were forced to return the animals back to their habitats. Later police were notified and a preventive order passed by SHO Christenganj, Ajmer, said, "In case both of you sisters repeat the act again and threaten the authorities to approach Maneka Gandhi, you will be booked and prosecuted for causing hindrance in government functions." It was this action of the ADM and the SHO Christianganj that make the sisters approach the high court for quashing of the preventive order besides seeking compliance of the rules framed for stray dogs.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-14/jaipur/32674778_1_stray-dogs-stray-animals-animal-birth
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