Authorities in India’s central Madhya Pradesh state have demolished a man’s home after a video of him urinating on a member of a tribal community went viral on social media this week, reports said. CNN.

Although the incident captured on video allegedly happened a year ago, the man, identified by police as Pravesh Shukla, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with indecent act. According to the police, he faces a fine and imprisonment for up to two years.

“As soon as we came to know that this video had gone viral, the police took action,” said Priya Singh, a police official in Sidhi district, where the incident allegedly took place.

District police told CNN that the state government also ordered the demolition of Shukla’s house because it was “illegally constructed.” Local media reported that the building was bulldozed on Wednesday.

On Friday, the Madhya Pradesh government said the victim would get 500,000 rupees as compensation and 150,000 rupees to help him build a house.

It is not the first time that the Indian authorities have demolished the house of a person accused of criminal activity.

Following violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims in April 2022, authorities in Madhya Pradesh demolished several properties belonging to what they called “insurgents”, claiming that houses and shops had been illegally built on government land.

Just a few months later, in June 2022, officials in Uttar Pradesh demolished the homes of several people accused of rioting over anti-Islamic comments made by two members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).