The Supreme Court restrained on Thursday vigilante groups in Kerala from culling stray dogs and distributing subsidised air guns to kill the canines, blamed for the death of four people in as many months. At least one lakh people were bitten by stray dogs in the state in 2015-16, a Supreme Court-appointed panel said in July. Read: Hated, honoured: Activist hunting for stray dogs divides Kerala societySurprised to know that associations and groups were formed to train children to kill stray dogs, the bench also asked the Kerala government to act against violators. “We restrain such organisations to impart training to the children or to distribute subsidized airguns for people to kill stray dogs or to publically propagate that there is war against the stray dogs or strangulate the stray dogs or for that matter offer prizes or incentives to those who kill the stray dogs,” the bench ordered. Read: Political party workers kill stray dogs, parade carcasses in Kerala

Source: Hindustan Times November 17, 2016 18:58 UTC