ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD OF INDIA vs PEOPLE FOR ELIMINATION OF STRAY TROUBLES

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2016 Supreme(SC) 789

DIPAK MISRA, UDAY UMESH LALIT
ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD OF INDIA – Appellant
Versus
PEOPLE FOR ELIMINATION OF STRAY TROUBLES – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Ms. Anjali Sharma, Hardeep Singh Anand, Rohan Thawani, Anand Daga, B.S. Banthia, Sachin Daga, Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, Shreekant N. Terdal, Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv., Udai Rathore, Ajit Sharma, Kunal Verma, Nirnimesh Dube, Shubham Jaiswal, (For M/s. Lex Regis Law Offices), Raj Panjwani, Sr. Adv., Ms. Aparna Bhat, Mayank Sapra, Rishi Kesh, Anupam Tripathi, (Petitioner-in-person), Ms. Akanksha Pandit, V.K. Biju, Ms. Jasmine D., Advocates.
For the Respondents:A.K. Panda, Sr. Adv., Ms. Sadhana Sandhu, R.K. Verma, Gurmeet Singh Makkar, Ms. Pinky Anand, ASG, Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv., A.K. Panda, Sanjay Kumar Pathak, Ms. Sadhana Sandhu, Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Mohan Prasad Gupta, R.R. Rajesh, Ms. Soumya Rathore, Ms. Saudamini Sharma, D.S. Mahra, G.S. Makker, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, Ms. Ambika Nijjar, Ms. Gauri Malnkhi, Dinesh Kumar Garg, Guntur Prabhakar, Ms. Prerna Singh, Narendra Kumar, Ms. Mahima Singh, C. Kannan, Naveen Kumar, Abhishek Singh, Kunal A. Chemma, AAG, Yogesh K. Ahirrao, Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, Pahlad Singh Sharma, Joydeep Mazumdar, Rohit Dutta, Parijat Sinha, Sanjiv Sen, Sr. Adv., Virag Gupta, Praveen Swarup, Mukul Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Ranjan Mukherjee, K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Shreekant N. Terdal, Sangram S. Saron, Shree Pal Singh, V.N. Raghupathy, Lagnesh Mishra, Parikshit P. Angadi, Ms. Anushree Prashit Kapadia, Ms. Aruna Mathur, Ysuf Khan, Avneesh Arputham, Ms. Anuradha Arputham, (M/s Arputham Aruna & Co.), K.V. Jagdishvaran, Rajiv Ranjan, Chand Qureshi, M.P. Siddiqui, Ms. G. Indira, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho, Amit Kumar Singh, K. Luikang Michael, Amol Chitale, Nirnimesh Dube, Shubham Jaiswal, (For M/s. Lex Regis Law Offices), Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Atul Yeshwant Chitale, Sr. Adv., Mrs. Suchitra Atul Chitale, Ms. Shivangi Khanna, Tanvi Kakar, Nikhil Nayyar, Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, G. Prakash, Sunil Fernandes, Ms. Astha Sharma, Ms. Mithu Jain, Puneeth K.G., Nikesh Tyagi, Vishwendra Verma, Pranav Verma, Anupam Tripathi, Ms. Vishnu Sharma, Ms. Aakannksha Pandit, Prashant Bhushan, Siddhartha K. Garg, V. Giri, Sr. Adv., C.K. Sasi, Ms. Manukrishnan G., E.C. Vidya Sagar, Subhash Chandra Sagar, Ms. Jennifer John, Anjali Sharma, Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Aditya Dhawan, Ms. Kiran Dhawan, Varinder Kumar Sharma, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Naresh Kumar Gaur, Ms. Linthoongambi Thongam, Vikramjit Banerjee, P.S. Sudheer, Rishi Maheshwari, Ms. Mayuri Nayyar, Bharat Sood, Ms. Shruti Jose, Anil Grover, AAG, Noopur Singhal, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Gopal Singh, Rituraj Biswas, Ms. Varsha Poddar, R. Venkatramani, Sr. Adv., V.G. Pragasam, S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Sameer Singh, Yashraj Singh Bundela, B. Balaji, Muthuvel Palani, A. Arvind, Rudreshwar Singh, Samir Ali Khan, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Ms. Aagam Kaur, Ms. Mamta Singh, Yoga Maya, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, Ms. Surabhi Aggarwal, Ms.Dharni Subramaniam, Mishra Saurabh, Ankit Kumar Lal, Advocates.

ORDER

On 9.3.2016, after referring to the earlier order dated 18.11.2015 and various other aspects, this Court has expressed the following view :

"We will be failing in our duty if we do not make a note of the submissions of both the sides which are extreme in nature, for example, emphasis and stress have been laid that due to stray dogs, there has been threat to life, health, movement and sometimes security of the human beings. On the other hand, it has been highlighted that the stray dogs are being annihilated without any justifiable reason. As advised at present, we do not intend to say anything on the said counts today.

On the last occasion, we had asked the Chief Secretary of each of the States and competent authorities of the Union Territories to act in letter and spirit of the previous order. As has been indicated earlier, responses have been filed by the State of Orissa, N.D.M.C., South Delhi Municipal Corporation and B.M.C., Mumbai. facts and circumstances in entirety, we Considering the direct the Chief Secretary of each of the States, either himself or through the Secretary of Health and the competent authorities of the Union Territories to send the report as regards the im

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2016 Supreme(SC) 789

DIPAK MISRA, UDAY UMESH LALITANIMAL WELFARE BOARD OF INDIA – AppellantVersusPEOPLE FOR ELIMINATION OF STRAY TROUBLES – Respondent

DIPAK MISRA, UDAY UMESH LALIT
ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD OF INDIA – Appellant
Versus
PEOPLE FOR ELIMINATION OF STRAY TROUBLES – Respondent