nainital police on tuesday booked around 50 unidentified people for assaulting a 25yearold man from the minority community who was tonsured and paraded with his face blackened after a cattle owner accused him of raping his cow on june 14 in kamaluvaganja lamachod and fatehpur areas of haldwani shops of traders from the minority community were also vandalised and forced shut the fir against the men who were booked on tuesday for the incident contains relevant sections of the ipc like section 355 assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person otherwise than on grave provocation and 149 every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object photos and videos of the man being assaulted by a mob also surfaced on social media ssp nainital pankaj bhatt said police are going through viral videos of the incident as well as cctv footage from the area to see who was involved a complaint in the matter had been lodged by rto road outpost inchargecommunal tension lasted in the area for several days it has died down now but police are continuing the investigation said the sspthe man in question was meanwhile taken into police custody the same day the incident occurred on tuesday an fir was filed against him under section 377 unnatural offences of ipc and relevant sections of animal cruelty act and also booked 4050 unidentified people for vandalism the cattle owner mahesh chandra told police that he works on a land he has taken on lease on june 14 he said he spotted the accused assaulting his cow and when he called out the man fled the man was chased caught and thrashed by local residents before he was paraded in the town