Patna, Aditya, a six-year-old slum-dwelling boy, has become the centre of attention for his bold and sharp comments during a students’ protest here.
Police used water cannons and allegedly resorted to lathi-charge after protesters breached barricades and pelted them with stones. Several people were detained, and some protesters and police personnel were injured.
Later, he was handed over to his parents by the police, who asked them to be “more careful with him”. Social media was abuzz with rumours that Aditya, a resident of Punaichak locality in Patna, had been “arrested” for taking part in the protests. However, police dismissed the claim, stating that the boy was handed over to his mother, who works as a house help, after being kept at a police station “for his own safety”. including his parents, remain of the view that the boy is being driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around, which may subside once he grows older, Aditya happily keeps telling eager reporters that he was “exercising his rights as a citizen concerned about the future” While most people.
Dressed in a T-shirt and denim trousers and sporting a traditional ’tilak’ on his forehead, Aditya participated in the protest over demands related to Bihar Public Service Commission examinations on Tuesday. Students and job aspirants clashed with the police during a march towards the chief minister’s residence on Tuesday.
