Chief Secretaries summoned! Supreme Court orders top officials to explain why stray dogs order was ignored

The court observed that multiple stray dog incidents occurred in the meantime.

"Yet no reply (has come) from state governments. Your country is being portrayed in a bad light internationally!" the court thundered and added, "Two months granted... yet no response!"

Only West Bengal and Telangana have filed their responses.

The Chief Secretaries of all states and union territories except West Bengal and Telangana have been summoned to offer an explanation on November 3.

In August, the Supreme Court had said dogs, except the aggressive ones, should be sterilised and released from shelter homes, modifying its previous order that had asked for a complete shifting to shelters.

Only the dogs which are aggressive or infected with rabies will not be released, the court had said in its order.

The top court had ordered a stop in public feeding of stray dogs and asked for the setting up of dedicated places for it.

The Supreme Court had modified its controversial order where a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan had ruled that all stray dogs from the residential localities will have to be shifted to the shelters in the wake of deaths due to rabies following dog bites.