HC asks Centre to respond to plea challenging rules excluding veterinary doctors from animals' sterilisation process
Updated: May 31 2023 7:17PM
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) The Delhi High Court sought the Centre's response on Wednesday on a plea challenging the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, which exclude registered veterinary doctors and officers from participating in the process of immunisation, vaccination and birth control of various animals.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued a notice to the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying on the petition filed by three veterinary doctors.
The court asked the ministry to file its response within four weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on August 28.
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