The Hyderabad police have sought the help of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to catch stray dogs in the city ahead of the Bakrid festival.
The move of the city police is to check incidents of stray dogs picking and carrying meat pieces into the Hindu community-dominated localities and discard them creating law and order problems.
The police asked the GHMC to send its stray dog-catching units to localities where there is a mix of both communities.
In previous years during Bakrid, there was tension when pieces of meat were found in temples. The right-wing activists termed it the handiwork of Islamic fundamentalist groups while the police maintained it was the job of stray dogs.