New Delhi: Around 25 students and staff members suspected to be from South East Delhi’s Don Bosco Technical Institute allegedly ganged up against a pregnant street dog and beat her to death after torturing her, officials said, reported news agency PTI. After videos of the gruesome killing went viral on social media, the New Friends Colony Police Station registered an FIR in connection with the matter, the report added.
As per report citing the complaint, two brothers of the institute were also allegedly present under instructions from the senior staff.
The disturbing video shows an all male gang of students cornering the scared dog inside a tin shed on the institute's campus which is entered by a student with a rod in his hand, and the remaining students egging him on from outside, they said.
The 15-minute-long video carrying horrid visual of the torture and killing of the animal went viral on Saturday with activists and dog lovers seeking strict actions against the accused, suspected to be students of the institute located in Okhla.
Later, one of the members from the crowd could be seen dragging the dog through, reportedly, the college compound.
The ghastly act surfaced within days of another such video from Ghaziabad which showed three people killing a dog by hanging him in a grotesque manner. The accused in this incident were booked in a case by police after a complaint.
ALSO READ: Guj Polls: 'Narendra Working For Record Win Of Bupendra', Says PM Modi At BJP Rally In Veraval
"It is horrific to see such brutality by young students who can be seen laughing as they beat an expectant mother to death," said Ambika Shukla, Trustee, PFA.
Citing scientific studies, Ambika said that cruelty against animals is also dangerous because it escalates to violence against women and children.
"With time, the high of abusing a defenceless animal dissipates and to impose their power, such abusers, then prey on women and children," she said.