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Order Details: COPY OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Pdf Text: Ct Cases No. 631/2026
Ms. Rashim Sharma Vs. M/s. GMR Airports Ltd.
20.04.2026
Fresh complaint u/s 223 and application u/s 175(3)
BNSS received. It be checked and registered.
Present: Sh. Manish Gandhi and Sh. Akshay Malik, Ld. Counsel
for the complainant.
It is submitted by Ld. Counsel for the complainants that
complainants are social workers and are volunteers who provide care
to animals. It is further submitted that in the airport area, there have
been continued incidents where street dogs were removed by
inhumane methods by the respondents. Ld. Counsel for the
complainants submits that one dog namely ‘Kaddu’ has been missing
from MLCP building, IGI Airport since 26.03.2026. Further, on
04.04.2026, a video was circulated on social media showing another
dog namely ‘Brownie’ being captured brutally by sanitation workers
of respondent No. 2 namely DIAL at arrival point, Terminal – 1. It is
submitted that there are many videos circulated on social media
where street dogs were brutally treated in cruel manner and removed
from their locations at IGI Airport. It is submitted that all the dogs in
the IGI Airport vicinity are totally vaccinated and completely
harmless. It is further submitted that the complaints have lodged
several complaints at IGI Airport in this regard and they also
requested to enquire about the present locations of the dogs removed
as well as for retrieving the CCTV footage but no action was taken.
Further, complaint was also made to DCP, IGI Airport. It is submitted
by Ld. Counsel for the complainants that there is a strong
apprehension that the abovesaid dogs might have been killed during
the process of removal by the respondents. Ld. Counsel for the
complainants also submits that all the acts done by the respondents
for removal of the dogs from the airport form part of the same
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transaction.
File perused.
In addition to the abovesaid submissions, it is observed
that in the complaints made to the police, there is a specific mention
of date and time of the removal of the dogs from the airport area.
Accordingly, it is directed that action taken report be
called from SHO, PS IGI Airport as well as from DCP, IGI Airport
for NDOH. It is also directed that DCP, IGI Airport shall cause
preservation of the CCTV footages of the adjoining areas as per the
date and timings mentioned in the complaints and the footages be
placed on record alongwith the ATRs on the NDOH.
A shorter date is given so that the compliance for
preservation of CCTV footage could be ensured.
Put up for further proceedings on 29.04.2026 at 2:00 pm.
Copy of this order be sent to SHO as well as to the DCP,
IGI Airport for compliance.
(PRANAV JOSHI)
ACJM-01/PHC/NDD
20.04.2026
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