India, Aug. 14 -- As a three-judge Supreme Court bench began hearing arguments against the apex court's previous order on stray dogs in the Delhi-NCR region, Justice Vikram Nath asked "what is the objectionable part?", referring to the ruling.

The Supreme Court posed the question to Kapil Sibal, who was representing the petitioners seeking a stay on the order directing picking of all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR within eight weeks and housing them in dog shelters.

When asked to specify what he found objectionable in the order, Sibal presented some arguments, all of which centered around the shortage of dog shelters in the Delhi-NCR region.

"Start rounding the street dogs from all locality in Delhi Ghaziabad Faridabad etc and to relocate the...