Stopping a person from feeding stray dogs in non-designated areas cannot be held as "wrongful restraint" or "obstruction" under the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bombay High Court said.
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A Bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh Patil quashed a criminal case registered against a 42-year-old Pune resident for allegedly stopping a woman and her friends from feeding stray dogs at the gates of their housing society.
"Stopping a person from wrongfully feeding stray dogs in a non-designated area cannot be said to `restrain' within the meaning of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita," the High Court said.
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