New Delhi: The matter of sending stray dogs to shelter homes is getting deeper. Its hearing is going on in the Supreme Court of the country. The Supreme Court is going to give an important decision today, i.e. on 22 August. The controversial decision to catch all the stray dogs from Delhi and the four surrounding districts, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad, and keep them in shelter homes has been challenged.

The Supreme Court gave this order on 8 August 2025. Now the question is whether it will be stopped. It is expected that the court can also make some amendments to its decision. A bench of three judges will give this big decision.

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A big decision can come today.

The Supreme Court can make a big decision today regarding stray dogs in Delhi and NCR. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath (along with Justice Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria) will decide whether the order should be completely stopped or changed, or it should be retained.

On August 8, a bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan had ordered that all stray dogs should be caught and sent to permanent shelters within eight weeks. After this, they should not be left on the streets again. Not only this, but later in its written order, it was decided to extend it to Faridabad. Along with this, instructions were also given to build shelters with a capacity of 5,000 in eight weeks.

Know the controversy and objection.

Immediately after the Supreme Court’s order, a big controversy arose. After this, many NGOs and animal welfare groups said that this is against the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Animal Birth Control Rules. According to these rules, dogs have to be sterilised and vaccinated and then released back in the same area, and not locked in shelters on a large scale.

Then the bench was changed.

The order issued by the Supreme Court regarding stray dogs also saw strong opposition on the ground. Given the new petitions, Chief Justice BR Gavai withdrew the case from the Pardiwala bench and handed it over to a larger bench of three judges.

This bench held a long hearing on August 14 and reserved the decision, which will now be pronounced on Friday. During the hearing, the larger bench reprimanded the Delhi government and municipal corporations for not implementing the rules made by themselves.