Overview

• Speaking at a Thiruvananthapuram conference hosted by NALSA and KeLSA, Justice Vikram Nath thanked CJI B R Gavai for assigning him the high-profile matter and noted the global attention it drew.
• He quipped that messages he received said not just dog lovers but dogs themselves were sending him blessings.
• On August 22, the three-judge bench he led modified the August 11 directive, ordering that strays be vaccinated, sterilised and dewormed, then released back to their original areas, with rabid or aggressive dogs not to be released.
• The bench barred feeding in streets and public places and directed creation of designated feeding zones in every municipal ward.
• The court has sought responses from all states and Union territories and pulled related High Court cases to the Supreme Court to shape a national framework, after the CJI reassigned the case from the earlier bench.