Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1018 · Decided 22 August 2025
In Re: “city Hounded BY Strays, Kids Pay Price” v.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1018 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 1861
- Case number
- SUO MOTO WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5/2025
- Decided
- 22 August 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
The issue involved in these petitions centres around the right of the stray dogs to live on the streets, vis-à-vis, the safety and security of the citizens particularly the kids and elderly people from these very stray dogs, many of whom are suspected to communicable disease, i.e., rabies. Earlier, the Two Judges Bench of this Court issued directions on 11.08.2025 considering the disturbing pattern of dog bites in the country. Directions by the Supreme Court - Menace of dog bites - Mollification of the directions
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