In cities across the country, the feral animals are both loved and feared. The judges are forging into intensely emotional territory by going after the ones in the capital.

India’s top court has ordered authorities in New Delhi to start removing all stray dogs from its streets and to sterilize and relocate them to shelters permanently.

In this episode of Janab Aise Kaise, we hit the ground in Delhi to track the fallout of the Supreme Court’s recent directive on stray dogs. The court has ordered the Delhi government and local bodies in the NCR to capture stray dogs and shift them permanently to shelters on an urgent basis.