Overview
- Around 30 activists held a peaceful demonstration at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, urging the Supreme Court to rethink its directive to remove street dogs from public spaces.
- Organisers have called a nationwide 'Do or Die' protest for Sunday, with Mumbai’s PAL Welfare Foundation planning a 5 p.m. gathering in Andheri Lokhandwala.
- The court on 7 November ordered relocation of stray dogs from stations, schools, hospitals and bus stops to designated shelters after sterilisation and vaccination, and it declined a related plea on 18 December.
- PAL Welfare Foundation has filed an intervention set for a 7 January hearing, seeking orders aligned with the Animal Birth Control framework.
- Activists allege civic bodies are rounding up dogs while ignoring duties like feeding spots and compliance affidavits, warn of high costs and disease risks in crowded shelters, and promote ABC sterilisation and vaccination as the lawful, workable alternative.