MCA: Does council have licence to kill?

Seeking answers: Low (seated, right) holding up a copy of the police report as ISPCA volunteers look on at the Perak MCA headquarters.

IPOH: Perak MCA has questioned the Ipoh City Council’s standard operating procedure (SOP) used in the killing of a stray dog.

Its Public Service and Comp­laints bureau chief Low Guo Nan said under the Animal Welfare Act 2015, the council was barred from doing so.