TN youth attempts suicide after video of assault goes viral

Chennai, Feb 4 : Upset over a video of his assault going viral on social media, a Dalit youth in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district attempted suicide by consuming poison.
G. Rahul, a resident of Poondi village near Thanjavur, is undergoing treatment at the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital.
Police on Thursday detained four persons and were looking for two others.
A group of six persons, three of them Dalits, had assaulted Rahul on suspicion of theft last week.
According to police, Rahul was working for Karnan, engaged in sand transportation business. On January 31, Rs 30,000 cash went missing from Karnan’s house and he suspected Rahul.
Karnan’s son Lakshmanan and his friends caught hold of Rahul and took him to a farm field, where they assaulted him with a wooden stick.