In what is seen as a rare conviction of the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals Act, a 40-year-old Chembur resident was found guilty for torturing and killing a cat with a screwdriver last year and was fined Rs 9,150.  

According to a report in The Times of India, the picture of the convict, identified by the police as Sanjay Gade, went viral on social media in which he was seen holding a dead cat impaled onto a rod. Gade, who is unemployed, had voluntarily pleaded guilty as he confessed of killing the cat in a fit of rage for the feline allegedly messed up his house.