A striped hyena—which is protected under the same law as tigers—was chased and killed for no reason in a village at Solapur district's Mangalvedha taluka.

On February 9, a video of a motorbike-borne person chasing the animal went viral on social media. Later, another clip emerged where one can see that the legs of the hyena had been tied while a person was torturing it by putting a stick in its mouth.