In 2021, a group of citizens comprising seven mothers and one father from a residential society in Noida, approached the Allahabad High Court for directions to the local authority to protect their families from stray dog attacks inside society premises. This after repeated, unprovoked attacks on their children by stray dogs who were being maintained and fed inside their society.
However, they were unable to get their petition filed because, at the time, the Supreme Court had asked lower courts not to hear any case related to stray dogs as the matter had been pending before it since 2009. The petitioners then knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court, only to be told that High Courts could resume hearing stray dog petitions, sending them back once again to their state High Court.
In October 2022, a seven-month-old infant, the child of labourers working inside Lotus Boulevard housing society in Noida, was mauled to death by a pack of sterilized stray dogs that were being fed inside the society’s premises. No FIR was filed by the Noida police, no compensation was paid to the family who lost their child and, by all accounts, the child’s parents were quietly packed off to another town.
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