mumbai animal activist and feeder vandana mahar who has been regularly feeding close to 45 dogs at a government land plot along the juhuversova link road in mumbai was shocked to find a bmc van arrive at the site on tuesday morning with several police personnel from d n nagar police station in order to pick up the healthy and sterilized dogs from the plotvandana immediately objected to the relocation of the dogs before the k west ward officials and quoted the supreme court directive and guidelines in this regard however the civic officials did not pay heed to her pleas and she along with her husband were detained at the d n nagar police station for nearly two hours for interfering with the civic workthe bmc officials had picked up three sterilized dogs from the land plot while the remaining dogs had fled towards the mangroves after seeing the commotion in the area i repeatedly told the municipal and the accompanying police officers to release the three dogs they had picked up since it is against the supreme court order to relocate sterilized dogs however they just refused to listen to my reasoning the police also stopped me from video recording the procedure of picking up the healthy dogs and later took away my phone said vandana adding that her husband was also detained along with her for trying to videorecord the incidentwhen toi contacted the k west assistant municipal commissioner prithviraj chauhan he said the vacant plot where dogs are present is basically the collectors land and our ward was instructed to clear the area i contacted the head of the bmc deonar abattoir in order to pick up the dogs however the animal activist vandana had started objecting although we were only carrying out our dutywhen told about the supreme court guidelines chauhan reiterated that they were only following the official instructions to clear the plot as it was to be handed over for some other purposefortunately for vandana though she managed to trace the three dogs to the ida centre at deonar on wednesday and successfully brought them back to the same plot on juhuversova link road i have only followed the legal rules and supreme court guidelines that clearly state that neutered dogs cannot be relocated even if you want to vaccinate them then it can be done on the spot itself said vandana