India’s Supreme Court has backtracked on a controversial order that all stray dogs in Delhi must be rounded up and placed in shelters, after an outcry from animal welfare groups, politicians and citizens who warned it was neither humane nor feasible.
Earlier this month, the court ruled that every stray in the capital region – close to 1 million dogs, according to estimates – should be removed from the streets within eight weeks. The directive followed rising reports of dog bites and rabies cases nationwide, and a media storm over the death of a child allegedly from rabies.
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