The district client dispute redressal discussion board on Tuesday ordered the Municipal Company of Gurugram (MCG) to type a coverage inside three months for conserving pet canines at residence, and in addition directed the civic physique to pay an interim compensation of ₹2 lakh to a lady, who was critically injured after being attacked by a pet canine close to the PWD visitor home in Civil Strains on August 11.
The patron courtroom of Sanjeev Jindal gave liberty to the MCG for realising the compensation quantity from the canine proprietor, who lives in a bungalow on the Civil Strains.
The discussion board additionally directed the MCG to take the canine — a Dogo Argentino, which is a breed banned in India — into custody and to cancel the licence of the proprietor with instant impact.
Citing a central authorities notification, the discussion board additionally banned 11 overseas canine breedsand ordered that licences to maintain these canines be cancelled and the animals be taken into custody.
“As per the notification of presidency of India date 25.4.2016 the next pet canines of overseas breeds are hereby fully banned with instant impact w.e.f. 15.11.2022 that are as follows: American pit-bull terriers, Dogo Argentino, Rottweiler, Neapolitan mastiff, Boerboel, Presa Canario, Wolf canine, Bandog, American Bulldog, Fila Brasileiro and Cane Corso. The MCG is directed to cancel all of the licence, if any, issued on this regard in favour of the canine house owners for conserving the above cited pet canines with instant impact and take into its custody the aforesaid canines,”the order stated.
The discussion board additionally directed the MCG to maintain all of the stray canines in its jurisdiction in canine kilos, after taking them into custody with instant impact.
Nonetheless, stray canines are protected beneath Part 38 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960. Additionally, in response to the Animal Delivery Management (Canine) Guidelines, 2001, canines can’t be relocated or faraway from their territory.
Vijaypal Yadav, deputy municipal commissioner stated, “We are going to look into what the order states with regard to stray canines.”
“Within the curiosity of justice, an quantity of ₹2 lakh is ordered to be paid as compensation by means of interim aid by the MCG to the sufferer,” the discussion board stated, including that the girl is said to be a financially weak family assist.
It additionally noticed that the canine proprietor had blatantly violated the legislation by hold as pet a banned breed of canine, the Dogo Argentino. “So the MCG is put at liberty to get well the quantity of ₹2 lakh from the proprietor of the canine,” the order learn.
The sufferer Munni and her sister-in-law Magnificence Khatoon had been strolling on the pavement on the morning of August 11 on their approach to work when the canine all of the sudden attacked them. Munni was rushed to a authorities hospital in Sector-10A and later shifted to Safdarjung hospital the place she needed to endure surgical procedures to appropriate the extreme accidents to her head, neck and limbs.
The proprietor was later booked in a FIR registered on Magnificence’s grievance at Civil Strains police station.
Showing for the sufferer, counsel Sandeep Kumar Saini had filed a grievance within the client courtroom beneath the Client Safety Act, 2019, in search of a compensation of ₹20 lakh.
