Giudici impose capture after recent increases and deaths
The Indian Supreme Court gave eight weeks to the Delhi government to remove the tens of thousands of stray dogs that populate the streets and parks of the capital. The decision was motivated with the exponential increase in cases of people who are bordered by dogs.
The Court has unjust to the administration to establish kennels and to keep daily counts on the number of captured animals. The judges anticipated the possible objections of the animal rights activists by declaring that no attempt to prevent the capture will be tolerated: while the media have repeatedly denounced the increase in bites, with some who have come to report two thousand cases per day, numerous citizens continue to take care of the dogs, causing them daily food, water, covered. The last census on the strays of the Indian capital, which dates back to 2012, had counted about 60 thousand: the most recent calculations hypothesize that they increased reaching almost one hundred thousand.
The increase in stray in the metropolis has become a national health problem: India is the third country in the world to death following bites. A recent communication to the Parliament of the Ministry of Health has reported 3.7 million bites recorded in 2024 and 54 people who died.
