Students of the Symbiosis International Institute have approached the NGO AASRA after waking up to find that street dogs from inside the campus and its surroundings had gone missing.
According to the students, they first approached the NGO and later met officials at the gram panchayat, who directed them to the GHMC. Corporation officials denied any involvement in the dog-catching
activity.
The NGO stated that there is no clarity on whether the institute followed Supreme Court guidelines on the handling of street dogs and demanded that authorities disclose where they were taken.
AASRA alleged that the dogs were picked up violently using wires. Students claimed that 37 dogs, including puppies, were missing — six of them from within the campus and the rest from areas surrounding it.