India, April 24 -- Two persons have been booked for allegedly trapping a pet dog inside a bag and beating it to near-death with sticks, pipes and stones, the Lashkar police said on Wednesday.

The brutality occurred at around 11 pm on Sunday, April 20, near Dinshaw Opticians Camp on M G Road when the seven-month-old Indie pet dog of a small-time vendor, Ajna Mahadev Bhale, was brutally beaten with wooden sticks, pipes and stones because it was barking. The accused, identified as Nabil Shaikh and Sufiyan, along with two other unidentified men beat the dog named 'Biddha' mercilessly because it was barking. When Bhale intervened and told them not to beat his dog, they abused and threatened to kill him, continuing to beat the canine. Biddha s...