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Delhi Begins Implementing Court-Ordered Sterilise-and-Return Policy for Stray Dogs

Officials began releases under the court’s revised approach, with public feeding shifted to designated zones.

MUMBAI, INDIA - AUGUST 23: Dog lovers and NGO in Thane protested at Upavan lake demanding that the Supreme Court's decision in Delhi is invalid and that the dog should be treated with compassion and not sent to a shelter, on August 23, 2025 in Mumbai, India.
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Stray dogs in Lodhi Garden on Saturday. (PTI)

Overview

  • India’s Supreme Court modified its August 11 directive, ordering that picked-up dogs be sterilised, dewormed, vaccinated and returned to their original areas, with rabid or aggressive animals kept in shelters and street feeding prohibited in favor of ward-level feeding spaces.
  • The Municipal Corporation of Delhi said it has released about 700 dogs captured around the Red Fort and will inspect sites in Dwarka Sector 29 and Bela Road to build permanent shelters for sick or violent dogs.
  • ABC centres and caregivers have started returning dogs to their localities, including a second batch from the Red Fort area released by Neighbourhood Woof in Timarpur.
  • Gurugram’s civic body plans to expand animal birth control capacity to roughly 1,200 sterilisation and vaccination procedures per month by adding centres across all zones.
  • Public tensions persisted as police reported a mauling of a five-year-old boy in Shakarpur and activists pressed Gurgaon police over an assault on a feeder, while fact-checkers debunked a viral ‘Delhi shelter’ video as footage from Erbil, Iraq.