The video starts with the boy approaching the stray who is resting in a pit of gravel

A 22-year-old has received a rap on his knuckles for assaulting a stray dog with a bat on photo and video sharing app, Snapchat, after the video went viral on other social media like WhatsApp and Facebook. The Rabodi police in Thane have registered a non-cognisable complaint against Abhimanyu Nimbalkar, who shot a video while hitting the stray. In the ten-second video, Nimbalkar, a law student of Dr DY Patil College of Law is seen hitting the stray, who is sleeping in a pit of gravel. After bearing the brutal assault, the whimpering dog moves away from where he was resting.