Overview

• Police said three stray dogs attacked five-year-old Gauransh outside his home in Udaipur’s Gautam Vihar colony.
• CCTV shows the dogs knocking him down, dragging him, and biting him before his mother, Preeti, chased them away and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he is receiving treatment.
• Residents reported panic in the area and said repeated calls to animal-welfare organisations brought no immediate assistance.
• The incident follows a Supreme Court direction on August 11 for Delhi‑NCR authorities to begin relocating street dogs and to create shelter capacity for 5,000 animals.
• Rajasthan’s High Court recently empowered municipal corporations to capture and shift stray dogs to shelters within eight weeks and ordered FIRs against obstruction, as the state recorded more than 300,000 dog-bite cases in 2024.