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Chennai: Acid attack on 3 and half year old
Chennai,
Nov
11:
A
three
and
a
half
year
old
boy
was
thrown
toilet
cleaning
acid
on
his
face
by
a
66-year-old
man
in
Peerkankaranai
near
Tambaram
in
the
neighbourhood
after
the
child's
father
objected
to
the
senior
citizen's
act
of
disposing
of
sewage
near
his
house.
Police
said
Navaneethakrishnan,
staying
in
a
house
on
Third
Cross
Street,
Devanesan
Nagar,
had
protested
the
discharge
of
sewage
near
his
house
by
his
neighbour
Venugopal,
a
former
employee
of
the
State
Highways
Department.
Even
elected
representatives
and
authorities
at
Peerkankaranai
town
panchayat
had
intervened
and
asked
Venugopal
to
refrain.
But
he
did
not
listen
to
any
of
them,
police
said.
Navaneethakrishnan,
a
Malaysian
citizen,
had
recently
come
here
on
a
vacation
and
was
planning
to
take
his
wife
and
their
son
along
with
him.
On Sunday, Nov 9 morning, the two had a quarrel and left, after their neighbours intervened. But in a fit of rage, Venugopal returned to his house. He went to the terrace of the house and emptied a bottle of the toilet cleaning acid on Nitish, son of Navaneethakrishnan, who was playing on the street.
Hearing the cries of the boy, his parents and neighbours rushed there and took the child to a private hospital nearby.
However, the staff at the hospital refused to treat the child, fearing complications if a police case was filed, police said.
The boy was then taken to the Primary Health Centre in Peerkankaranai where he was administered first aid and then shifted to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital in Chromepet. Shocked at the behaviour of the senior citizen, several neighbours went as a group to the Peerkankaranai police station with the boy's father to lodge a complaint. A case under Sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code was registered against Venugopal. He was arrested and remanded to judicial custody, police said.
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