Maternal Uncle Get Four-year-old Tolddler Drunk, Video Goes Viral

Mangalore Today Network-1

Tiruvannamalai: July 7, 2015: Within hours after a shocking video of a group of youth giving liquor to a toddler went viral in the social media, the Tiruvannamalai police arrested two youth and launched a search for four others, including the child’s maternal uncle.

 

The 1.37 minute long video that was circulated on WhatsApp and social media like Facebook left many in a state of shock. In the video, a group of six to seven youths is seen asking a four-year-old boy to drink beer in a plastic cup.  They also tell him to eat nuts kept in a plastic bag as a side dish.

While the boy is seen sipping the beer, the men seated around him cheer him up and ask him to keep drinking. They even laugh as the boy sips on. At one point, the toddler shakes his hand signalling that he does not want to drink more, but the men ask him to go on and drink it up quickly.


The little boy coughs with each sip, and then throws away the cup. Soon after the video found its way on the social media, the police swung into action and launched a search for the men. A two-wheeler spotted in the video led the police to the men seen in the video.

“We formed three special teams to trace the youth. We saw the vehicle registration number in the video (TN 25 AJ 8209) and traced it to Elumalai of Mel Cholankuppam village in Kadaladi police station limit,” R. Ponni, Superintendent of Police, Tiruvannamalai told Express. She added that they indulged in such uncultured act in an inebriated condition.

Elumalai is one of the six men seen in the video. The police also nabbed Premkumar of the same village along with Elumalai. During inquiry, the duo told police that the incident occurred on June 30 near a lake in the village.

Police said that the boy was the nephew of one of the accused, Murugan. Murugan had gone to play cricket with his friends and had taken the boy along. They consumed liquor after the game and it was then that they made the boy drink the leftover liquor, police said.

Police have launched a search for four others – Manikandan, Rajaram, Murugan and another Manikandan – of the same village.

The boy’s parents had left him with his maternal grandmother and are working as construction workers in Chennai.  The incident sent a shocking wave among the family members and neighbours of the men involved in the act. “We are contemplating to file case against them under Juvenile Justice Act against the men gave liquor to the child and videographed it and circulated it,” further said the SP.

 

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