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“ That will not solve the problem. You cannot say if it is free of rabies, the dog can bite. When human rights and animal rights are in contention, human rights will have to take precedence ”

- Justice B Subhashan Reddy, Chairperson, APSHRC

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Dog menace: APSHRC issues notices

Uma Sudhir

Wednesday, April 11, 2007, (Hyderabad)

The dog bite incidents in Hyderabad took a new controversial turn on Wednesday with the state human rights commission issuing notices to the government and animal rights groups saying more stringent measures beyond sterilisation and vaccination need to be taken.

"That will not solve the problem. You cannot say if it is free of rabies, the dog can bite. When human rights and animal rights are in contention, human rights will have to take precedence," said Justice B Subhashan Reddy, Chairperson, APSHRC.

The SHRC has taken suo moto notice of recent incidents of dog bites in Hyderabad, after which a baby died and several college girls were injured.

Notices have been issued to the municipal corporation, the college authorities and also animal rights group, Bluecross, to appear before the commission on April 30.

"In areas where the animal birth control and rabies programme has been implemented, there is not a single case of dog bite. This is not a big scare like AIDS or cancer that we need to have such a knee jerk reaction. In India, for 100 years we have been killing dogs but that has not solved the problem," said Vasanthi Vadi, Animal Rights Activist.

Animal activists say elimination of dogs is not an effective strategy for controlling the number of dogs and dog bites because new dogs would simply move into the old territory.

The World Health Organisation has advocated that animal birth control is the only effective way out and that's what the municipal corporation needs to prioritise.

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Posted By sanjeev kumar-Thursday, April 12, 2007

Ordinary citizens are at the mercy of Dangerous, Ferocious street dogs all over Hyderabad- all due to BlueCross. Not just walkers, but cars are chased by dogs. We should investigate how these Dog protection groups gets Millions of Dollars from foreign countries. These groups include all rich/famous & seems powerful.