How a humane law on dogs went to dogs in Telangana
Sarpanches who gave contracts for poisoning strays and some poisoners have been identified by cops. But there’s little political will in Congress-led govt to pursue these cases, even though the accused have violated Supreme Court-mandated rules & are booked under two laws
Just to put the Supreme Court case on stray dogs in context, as hearings went on, news has been filtering out from Telangana that more than 1,000 strays were killed across the state.
The mass killing was not the act of madmen unable to tell right from wrong.
This was the outcome of politics at its worst, and perpetrators getting away because laws meant to deter and punish such cruelty are ineffective.
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