India, Feb. 15 -- Animal welfare activists on Saturday alleged that civic authorities have been capturing and relocating stray dogs across parts of the Capital ahead of the upcoming AI Impact Summit. Several videos, verified by HT, circulating on social media, show dogs chained to objects or captured in nets.

One video shows dogs inside what appears to be a dump yard, chained to tables and locked inside steel kennels, with an activist alleging that airport authorities had picked them up. Activists who spoke to HT on Saturday claimed the video was shot at a dump yard near Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

"We sent a team to the airport at 6am on Friday morning, as we had heard that dogs were being picked up from acro...