JUDGMENT

B.R. Sarangi, ACJ.

The petitioner, an advocate by profession, has filed this writ petition by way of public interest litigation, seeking direction to the opposite parties to control and check the roaming dogs within the human inhabitants and also take necessary, appropriate or adequate action for the protection of the human lives and to pay compensation of Rs.10.00 lakhs to the family of the deceased child.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that one male child, namely, Satyabrata Rout, son of Hrudananda Rout at Jagannath Colony under Kumbharpada Police Station, Puri, while playing by the side of his house adjacent to the public road, on 01.12.2016, one after another four roving dogs furiously attacked him in the hunting manner. Hearing his cry, his mother and nearby neighbours came to the spot immediately, but the attack of the street dogs was so furious that within 2 to 3 minutes the child breathed his last. Neither his mother nor the other inmates could rescue the child from the clutches of the hunting dogs. The said child (Satyabrata Rout) was the only son of his parents and his death caused havoc in the lives of the parents so also the relatives.

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