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Supreme Court: The bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta expressed displeasure over non-compliance of the order of August 22.
Supreme Court: The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over non-compliance of the court order. The court said that the Chief Secretaries will have to appear personally. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant exemption to the Chief Secretaries of states and union territories from appearing before the court on November 3 in the stray dog case. The top court has directed the chief secretaries of all states and union territories, except West Bengal and Telangana, to appear in the court on November 3 to explain why compliance affidavits were not filed despite the court’s August 22 order. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta expressed displeasure over non-compliance of the August 22 order and said that till October 27, none of the states and union territories, except West Bengal, Telangana and Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD), had filed the compliance affidavit.
asked about abc rules
The court had asked the states and union territories about the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned the matter and urged the bench to allow the chief secretaries to appear in the court virtually on November 3. Justice Nath said that Chief Secretaries will have to come physically to the court. Justice Nath said that it is very unfortunate that the court is wasting time in dealing with problems which should have been done by the municipal corporations, state governments. He said that Parliament has made rules (ABC), but no action was taken. Justice Nath said that when we want them to come and file the compliance affidavit, they are just sleeping on it. No respect for court orders. Okay then, let them come. We will deal with them.
Rebuke to states and union territories
The bench made it clear that the Chief Secretaries will have to appear in the court and explain why compliance affidavits were not filed by the states and Union Territories. The bench said that when the case was heard on October 27, compliance affidavits were filed only by West Bengal, Telangana and MCD. Hearing the stray dogs case on October 27, the top court has directed the chief secretaries to appear before it on November 3 to explain why compliance affidavits were not filed despite the court’s August 22 order. The top court had reprimanded the states and union territories which had not filed their compliance affidavits in the case of stray dogs. On August 22, the Supreme Court had extended the scope of the stray dog case beyond the borders of Delhi-NCR and directed all the states and union territories to be made parties to the case.
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