New Delhi: The Pune Police on Sunday (March 8) booked four self-styled cow vigilantes for allegedly forcing a truck driver to eat cow dung at the Ambegaon police station. The police also booked a case against the driver for allegedly transporting buffaloes wrongfully.According a report published in The Indian Express, the cow vigilantes first brought the the driver to the Ambegaon police station with a truck carrying buffaloes on Friday (March 6). The police booked a case against the truck driver under sections of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act after inspecting the vehicle.Further, the truck driver complained to the police that the cow vigilantes assaulted him. The police filed a non-cognizable offence case based on the complaint. However, the police said that the driver didn’t mention that he was forced to consume cow dung, as per the report.A video of the incident went viral on social media in which the cow vigilantes are purportedly seen making insulting comments about the truck driver’s religion, physically abusing him and forcing him to eat cow dung.The police came allegedly came across the video on Sunday and lodged an offence against the four persons under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 196 (promoting enmity between different groups), 299 (outraging the religious feelings), 352 (intentional insult to provoke a breach of peace), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 3(5).“An FIR has been registered and search is on for the accused persons,” senior police inspector Sharad Zine was quoting as saying by IE.