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Applicability of ABC Rules, Tortious Liability, Euthanasia: Key Takeaways from Supreme Court’s Stray Dogs Case Ruling

In July 2025, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper article presenting alarming statistics on menace of stray dogs. Since then, the Court has periodically issued directions in this regard.

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Delhi High Court upholds constitutional validity of Rule 3, 5, 6 and 8 of Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023

The issue under consideration was whether the ABC Rules, 2023 unjustly exclude individual veterinarians from the animal birth control programme, thereby infringing upon their constitutional rights.

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[Stray Dog Birth Control] Sterilization and immunization of stray dogs is an important public function: Delhi High Court

The main grievance of the petitioner is non-compliance with rules made under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, 1960 i.e. The Animal Birth Control (Dog) Rules, 2001 that states taking up regular sterilization and immunization programmes of stray dogs, in order to curtail the growing population of stray dogs.