In a sharp rebuke to States and Union Territories for their inaction on the stray dog menace, the Supreme Court on Monday summoned the Chief Secretaries of all States and UTs, except West Bengal and Telangana, for failing to file compliance affidavits on the steps taken to implement the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules.

Hearing a suo motu case titled 'In Re: City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay The Price' , a bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice NV Anjaria expressed strong displeasure over the non-compliance, observing that incidents of stray dog attacks were "showing the country in a bad light before foreign nations".

"Continuous incidents are happening and the image of the country is being shown as down in the eyes of foreign nations. We are also reading news r

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