Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Mar 16: The Badiyadka police have registered a case against Keshava (42), a liquor vendor from Kumbdaje Vadambale, accusing him of using a student of a school to traffic liquor since the last some years. Keshava is absconding.

This secret of the vendor came to light after a student, who had no interest in learning and who was disobedient to his elders, was admitted into the Juvenile Home here. The vendor has been accused of making use of this 15-year-old student since the last three years for furthering his liquor business.

Reportedly, when the student was studying in seventh standard at a school in Mavvaru, the vendor succeeded in enticing the boy to help him to transport liquor. Thereafter, the boy joined eighth standard of a school near Badiyadka. The student, who was good at studies initially, began to lose interest in school, and also started to become rebellious at home. In the light of this development, he was admitted into a school at Vittal with arrangement to stay in a hostel there. Within a few days, he returned home from there. Therefore, the parents admitted him into the Juvenile Home at Paravanadka.

During personal counselling there, the boy told the counsellors about his association with illegal liquor trade since the last three years. The officials conveyed this information to Badiyadka police. The police questioned the boy and found about the way he was put to use by the illegal liquor vendor. The student told them that when studying in seventh standard, Keshava convinced him to carry a bag from Badiyadka to Kumbdaje. He added that on certain occasions, he was urged to deliver such a bag even in the afternoon, and that he used to go to Kumbdaje from his school for the purpose.

The police have given to understand that even after joining eighth standard, the boy mainly did the job of delivering liquor rather than studying. As he got money for his immediate needs from liquor vendor, he did not listen to advice by parents and elders. The boy said that he reached a stage wherein he came to believe that it would be impossible to carry on without getting involved with liquor transportation.

The police are now searching for the accused.