Perpetrators of animal cruelty beware. In what is probably the first such instance in India, a court has denied bail twice to Pawan Dangar, a resident of Washim district, for mercilessly thrashing an injured langur to death. A video of Dangar mercilessly hitting the injured langur with a stick, then tying it upside down and later humiliating the dead monkey by slapping it around with a slipper, has gone viral on social media.

A grab from the video that shows Pawan Dangar thrashing the langur and then hanging it on a tree, where he further hit it with his slipper