nagpur around 100 animal lovers gathered for a peaceful protest at samvidhan chowk on wednesday morning demanding revocation of the latest verdict given by the nagpur bench of bombay high court penalising public feeding of stray dogsraising concerns over the survival of strays when not fed the group also called for revocation of permission given to the local administration to activate section 44 of bombay police act 1951 of eliminating stray dogsaccording to them denying food to any living being is criminal and against the indian constitution with these directives our enumerated fundamental rights are being impinged upon the courts order clearly violates article 51 a g of the constitution which is not acceptable said veteran animal activist karishma galaniarticle 51a g states that it is the duty of every citizen of india to protect and improve the natural environment including forests lakes rivers and wildlife and to have compassion for living creatures penalising people who feed other needy living creatures is completely against of this added galaniactivists are now planning to knock the doors of apex court to get justice for animals we need to question the officials of nagpur municipal corporation nmc as it failed in controlling the dog population animal birth control abc programme has been a complete failure we need to keep on feeding the poor souls and hope that we get relief from the supreme court animal lover desh ratnahcs directives issued on october 20 were regarding feeding of stray dogs asking civic officials and police to take stern action against anyone obstructing them acting against the menace of stray dogs the courts order is completely unacceptable for animal lovers it is our responsibility to feed and take care of stray animals if there are any incidents happening due to strays there are various logical measures that can be taken instead of taking away the basic right of food said rahul motwani an animal lover ngo maheshwari foundation has pledged to bear all fines that are imposed on citizens feeding strays we will keep doing this until these directives are relaxed we cant let helpless animals starve the ngo stated