After a shoot-at-sight order for stray pigs, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come up with another brainwave this time for stray dogs - killing them with poisoned rasgulla.
Hundreds of stray dogs are to be fed these poisoned rasgullas - a popular white sweet dunked in syrup - to rid the Bihar capital of this menace.
"The dogs would be offered the poisoned sweets at midnight, so they can die peacefully in sleep," said an official of the PMC. "It is an easier way to exterminate them than shooting."
Newly appointed Patna municipal commissioner KP Ramaiah has launched aggressive campaigns to remove strays like cattle, pigs and dogs and often taken measures that could be seen as radical.
