The Supreme Court`s decision on moving stray dogs to the shelter home in Delhi has sparked a huge debate across the country. Taking this very sensitive matter into consideration, the Chief Justice of India,

Professor Indra Narain Singh, head of Buddhist Studies department, Delhi University, told TOI that the recent SC order to relocate the strays from Delhi-NCR to shelter homes in far-off areas is nothing "but a death sentence for the mute dogs who can't defend themselves in a court of law".

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.