Overview

• A two-judge bench on August 11 directed Delhi-NCR civic bodies to catch all stray dogs within six to eight weeks, keep them in shelters without release, start a bite-complaint helpline, seize the implicated dog within four hours, and warned of contempt for obstruction.
• A three-judge bench has since reserved its interim order on pleas seeking a stay, leaving enforcement uncertain and no formal pause in place.
• Protests continued across multiple cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Jaipur, Kolkata and Lucknow, with Delhi Police detaining demonstrators in Connaught Place.
• Confrontations were reported during removals in the capital, with videos showing an MCD van vandalised and dog-catching teams threatened as officials said they were acting on resident complaints.
• Animal-welfare groups cite ABC rules that require sterilise–vaccinate–return and flag Delhi’s lack of a recent dog census and limited shelter/sterilisation capacity for an estimated hundreds of thousands of dogs, while public-health advocates point to millions of annual bites and hundreds of rabies deaths as grounds for urgent action.