NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court
is set to deliver, on Friday, its rul-ing on pleas seeking suspension of the contentious August 8 order directing the mass capture and sheltering of stray dogs in Delhi and four adjoining districts-Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad in the National Capi-tal Region (NCR).
A three judge bench led by Jus-tice Vikram Nath, and also com-prising justices Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria, will decide whether the order has to be sus-pended in toto, tweaked, or allowed to stand as it is.
Earlier on Thursday, a different bench had refused an urgent list-ing of the matter, as sought by an animal rights’ organisation. This bench declined to pass any direc-tion, which meant that, for the time being, the August 8 order remained operative. Later in the day, however, it became clear that
Satinder Duggal
