KOCHI: The High Court directed the government to file an affidavit detailing the steps taken by the municipal corporations to implement the stray dog ​​protection order. A division bench comprising Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice P Gopinath gave the direction to Additional Advocate General Ashok M Cherian based on media reports that stray dog ​​attacks are on the rise.

Government should collect information about measures taken by each municipal corporation, vaccination of stray dogs etc. If they failed to do so, the actions taken against them should also be explained.

These suggestions are in a petition that the High Court is hearing on its own accord in the case of a dog named Bruno being beaten and thrown into the sea in Adimalathura, Thiruvananthapuram. The petition will be heard again on July 5.

It was in the same petition that the Division Bench considered the Arikomban issue in Chinnakanal and formed an expert committee to study the conflict between man and wild animals and submit a report.

Can the elephants be freed?

The division bench also directed the expert committee to submit a report clarifying the options for the release of the elephants recently captured and kept in the elephant management center. An elephant named Dhoni, which had entered the residential area of ​​Palakkad and caused damage, was also caught and brought to the elephant management center. High Court granted permission to deport Arikomban in a petition filed by People for Animals against the efforts to capture him in a similar manner.