Sagaya Fernando Mumbai: 6 November 22 A team of doctors at Apollo Multispecialty hospital in Triuchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, saved the life of a 33-years-old man whose neck was pierced through by a feet long iron rod. Karthikeyan, a resident of Ariyamangalam in the city, was watering the concrete slabs on the first floor of his under-construction house when he accidentally slipped and fell 15 to 20 feet down, on October 15. As he fell, a 5 feet long iron rod with serrated edges pierced through his neck and came out from the back. “Within fifteen minutes of the mishap, his relatives rushed him to our hospital which is in close vicinity,” informed Apollo Multispecialty Hospital, Triuchirappalli, Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon Dr Mohamed Mansoor, who led the operating team. “On evaluation in emergency, it was seen that he had a 5 feet long iron rod penetrating into the anterior aspect of neck and exiting the posterior aspect of neck.
Story by Sumesh RajanMumbai: March 3, 2018

What started as a blog by the top cop has now become a loud voice against such inhumane practice under the garb of religious rituals.
Following Sreelekha’s blog on the matter, the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights registered a suo-motu case on February 28.

She further states, “Causing physical and mental pain to children are offences under sections 89, 319, 320, 349, 350, 351 of the Indian Penal Code. The Juvenile Justice Act and the Child Welfare Commission Act penalises it. Who will complain? Parents will not, those who see it will not since they have no locus standi. Will a child complain? How will he even know that a crime has been committed on him?”
Sreelekha compared the boys with the goats to be sacrificed at the Kamaakhya Temple at Guwahati in the state of Assam. “All the boys in wet loincloths bore the same look of the sacrificial goats of Kamakhya,” she said.
The officer said she is an ardent devotee of the temple’s presiding goddess and has been offering Pongala — a mix of rice, jaggery and ghee — since she was a 10, but she can’t justify such “cruel customs”.
Sreelekha said the custom thrives because most parents believe their children will do well in life if they perform such punishing rituals, and they as well as temple officials often ignore the hardships the boys endure.

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