After footage of a Dalit youth being paraded with his hands tied with a rope at one end and the other end of the rope to a cow went viral, the victim lodged a police complaint against four persons accusing them of assault and insulting him. Malavalli rural police have taken up a case against Raju of Dugganahalli, Girish and Rezar Mallaiah of Malvalli town and Sundaramma of Hanakola under provisions of ST/ST (prevention of atrocities) Act and IPC following a complaint from Suresh Vardhan HS, of Hanakola. Malavalli subdivision DySP Lakshminarayan Prasad said the accused are at large.