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Visakhapatnam: Cook serves booze to minors, booked

The students, all of whom were below the age of 11, believed them and consumed the drink.

Visakhapatnam: A cook working at the Integrated Hostel of Backward Classes in Cheepuripalle in Vizianagaram district, and his assistant, deceived three minor students into consuming alcohol.

Though the incident occurred on Sunday evening, it only came to light on Tuesday night. Cook A. Ramulu and his assistant K. Simhadri were drinking at the hostel on Sunday evening when they spotted the students playing in front of the hostel.

They asked them to come sit with them and offered them aerated drinks spiked with alcohol saying that it was apple juice. The students, all of whom were below the age of 11, believed them and consumed the drink.

Soon after that the boys began vomiting and felt unwell. According to sources, the cook and his assistant warned the students not to tell anyone about the incident, but one of the boys who suffered from a headache and pain in his stomach, narrated the episode to his teachers.

Upon learning about the incident, parenrs of the students’ went to the hostel on Tuesday and filed a complaint against the cook and his assistant with the BC Welfare Department.

District BC Welfare Officer Kushboo Kothari said that the cook, his assistant and three wardens of the hostel had been suspended in relation to the incident.
Some students of the hostel, on condition of anonymity, said that the cook and his assistant were often inebriated while discharging their duties and that they ended up ignoring the wardens’ instructions and ruining the meals they were preparing.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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