SC: Animal lovers can protect strays if they take responsibility for bites

Key points

• Animal rights can’t operate in isolation: SC NEW DELHI: Heeding a chorus of pleas by multiple animal right activists and groups to allow them to protect or maintain stray dogs in public spaces
• Supreme Court on Wednesday said they can feed and take care of canines
• but will have to face tortious liability for any injury caused to the public by the animals.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath
• Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria said that the right to protect stray dogs in public spaces cannot be divorced from the obligation to ensure that such actions do not result in harm to others and made it clear that right and responsibility go together.It said
• “While considerable emphasis has been placed on the protection