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.

Adah Sharma criticized the Supreme Court’s order to remove stray dogs in Delhi, calling it misguided. She urged people to adopt stray dogs instead of