The Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 urgently took on board a plea by Kannur district panchayat in Kerala to euthanise “suspected rabid” and “extremely dangerous” stray dogs.
A Vacation Bench of Justices Surya Kant and M.M. Sundresh issued formal notice and listed the case for hearing on July 12.
The panchayat had moved the Supreme Court shortly after a 11-yr-old autistic child was allegedly “mauled to death” by a pack of stray dogs in Kannur on June 11. The panchayat which filed the petition through its president PP Divya, represented by advocate Subhash Chandran KR, said it was “horrified” by the incident.
