Not enforcing March 2024 ban on import, sale of 23 ‘ferocious’ dog breeds at present, Centre tells Bombay HC

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Bombay High Court canine breeds case, Bombay High Court hears PIL challenging Central government’s March 2024 circular connected banning unsafe canine breeds. (Source: File Photo)

The Central authorities connected Friday informed the Bombay High Court that astatine contiguous it is not acting connected the March 2024 circular which had declared 23 canine breeds to beryllium “dangerous and ferocious” and had prohibited their import, breeding, merchantability arsenic favored dogs and for different purposes.

The part seat of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Bharati H Dangre was proceeding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by NGO Animal Rescue Trust done carnal rights activistic Vineeta Tandon which challenged the notification stating that the determination was taken without consultation with stakeholders including the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and breeders, among others.

The lawyer representing the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying stated that it had issued a nationalist announcement connected May 2, 2024 seeking objections to the said notification and it volition instrumentality a suitable determination aft considering the objections. The precocious courts of Calcutta and Karnataka had stayed the circular successful March 2024.

The petitioner NGO submitted successful presumption of the nationalist announcement of May past twelvemonth that it preferred submitting objections earlier the acrophobic department.

The circular referred to breeds (including mixed and transverse breeds) specified arsenic Rottweiler, Pitbull Terrier, American Bulldog, American Staffordshire Terrier, Dogo Argentino, South Russian Shepherd Dog (Ovcharka), and wolf dogs, too each canine of the benignant commonly known arsenic a Ban Dog (or Bandog).

Through its March 12, 2024 circular, the Central authorities directed main secretaries of each states and Union territories to guarantee that nary licences oregon permissions are issued for the sale, breeding, oregon keeping of canine breeds “dangerous for quality life”. It besides directed radical having specified canine breeds arsenic pets to sterilise them.

The PIL besides sought absorption to the Maharashtra Government to signifier authorities and district-level Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) wrong a stipulated time. The authorities authorities lawyer submitted that a authorities committee and district-level societies person been constituted.

The seat volition perceive the plea aft 3 weeks.

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