In an incident that surpassed the limits of inhumanity, a road crew in Agra crushed a sleeping dog under a road roller on Tuesday night and then built a road over the dead body of the dog.

The brutal incident sparked angry protests in the city. The police has now filed a case under Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PFA) Act against the contractor firm.

Talking to India Today, a police official said that the dog had apparently been sleeping on the road when it got crushed under the road roller last night. Instead of removing the dead body of the dog, the road crew poured molten asphalt over the body and then leveled the road, without caring for the fact that more than half of the dead dog's body was sticking out of the road.

The police received a complaint from a Hindu activist Govind Parashar, who filed a case against R P Construction, which holds the contract of building the road, in the PFA Act.

A worker at the company told India Today that the engineer had been informed about a dead dog on the road, but he ordered the road to be built over the body of the dog.

Now the police have filed a case against the contractor and have started an investigation in order to satisfy the angry crowds in the city that are demanding an immediate action against the contractor and the engineer responsible for the building of the road.