Making an oral mention before Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, advocate VK Biju said that school children, daily wage laborers and women are the victims of danger.
Making an oral mention before Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, advocate VK Biju said that school children, daily wage laborers and women are the victims of danger.
The Supreme Court on September 5 agreed to urgently list a petition on September 9 to take stock of the measures, if any, of the Kerala government to eliminate the menace of stray dogs in the state.
Making an oral mention before Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, advocate VK Biju said that school children, daily wage laborers and women are the victims of danger. He said the 12-year-old victim was fighting for her life. “Kerala has become its own country of dogs,” said Mr. Biju.
The lawyer told the court former Kerala High Court judge, Justice S. Sreejagan, which was set up by the apex court in 2016 to hear dog bite victims, to examine the severity of their injuries. Keep an eye on the treatments and facilities available to them. He said that the state has witnessed 10 lakh stray dog attacks in the last five years.
The Kerala government, in an affidavit in 2018, said that the treatment for dog bites in the state is virtually free and that government hospitals do not charge any fee from the victims. The state had informed that money for payment of dog bite compensation goes from the treasury of local self-government bodies.
Furthermore, the state was outraged at how “animal lovers” rejected its new idea of ”stray dog parks” in every district.