Ahmedabad: The officials of the forest department of Ahmedabad’s Mahisagar arrested four people for allegedly beating a rat snake to death for making a Tiktok video. According to the officials, the accused were seen in the video dancing to a Bollywood song holding the snake and beating it with a stick, Indian Express reported.

The arrested people were identified as Jagdish Vaghela, Pranay Vaghela, Bharat Vaghela and Vikram Vaghela. The viral video saw the men dancing on a Bollywood song and holding the snake. They were repeatedly beating the snake with a stick till it died, forest officials were quoted by the newspaper as saying.