Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court issued a direction prohibiting of public feeding of stray dogs and directed the police to take "stern action" against anyone obstructing them acting against the menace of stray dogs.

The Bench held by Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Pansare passed the order in a 2006 PIL filed by activist Vijay Talewar through advocate Firdos Mirza seeking action against the dog menance observing that "real charity lies in taking the complete care and not just feeding and then leaving poor creatures to fend for themselves."

Thereby directing that whoever wants to feed the stray dog shall adopt them and shall not feed them publically.

"We further direct the Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal Corporation to ensure that, no feeding of street dogs takes place at any place except at the own place of the dog feeder or in the dog shelter homes or any other authorised place and we also direct him to impose appropriate penalty for any breach of these directions, which penalty may not be more than of Rs.200/- for every breach as per the resolution already passed in this behalf by Nagpur Municipal Corporation"

Consdiring the seriousness of the issue, the court held that "These supposed friends of stray dogs do not realise the disastrous consequences of their charity. Fed on the goodies provided by the animal lover, many of the stray dogs become insolent and get even more violent in their behaviour towards human beings in general and children in particular."

The Court also considered the usefulness of the dogs and held that "After all, one cannot forget that basically dog is the best friend of man and therefore,we must take it as duty of each one of us to take proper care of the dogs/bitches, whether they are reared as our pets or allowed to grow up in the streets."