This is to bring to your notice that in the wake of upcoming Commonwealth Games in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is planning that stray dogs to be rounded-up across the city before Commonwealth Games and taken elsewhere. There are talks of removing stray dogs from their natural surroundings before the Games.

Municipal body capture stray dogs in the cruelest manner causing serious injuries to them in the process and either kill them or release them on the outskirts in the city. These dogs eventually die horrible deaths as they do not know how to fend for themselves in unfamiliar surroundings. This action is in gross violation of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules which only allows stray dogs to be removed for sterilisation, vaccination. Under ABC rules, the dogs should be returned where they were picked up from.

There is also news of barbaric and dastardly killing of 11 dogs in the Jal Sadan vicinity in Lajpat Nagar area.