India's top court has ordered authorities to remove all stray dogs from the streets and place them in permanent shelters, sparking an uproar from animal-rights groups over the feasibility of a decision some say was made in anger.

The problem of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR is because of "inaction" by local authorities, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, 14 August, while reserving its order on the interim plea seeking a stay on the 11 August direction passed by a two-judge bench of the apex court.