Boy chides drunkards, stabbed in Ahmedabad

On February 11, the boy said, drunken youths began creating a ruckus outside his home in Ram Chali. ‘‘They were shouting and cursing loudly and as I was trying to study, I told them to move along. But one of them slapped me. I ran but four persons caught me. They stabbed me on my back and buttocks. One of them was Bhuriyo, a local gunda,’’ he said.

His aunt Neera said, ‘‘I tried to intervene, but the attackers threatened to stab me, too. They ran when other women began shouting for help.’’

His father Santlal Prajapati works in a private textile mill. ‘‘I bought this house eight months ago. I didn’t know anything anything about the neighbourhood. I didn’t know there was a liqour den nearby,’’ he said.

Residents of the chali said Bhuriyo has been terrorising the area for some time.

Bhurio is yet to be arrested. ‘We have registered a case under IPC section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons) against him, said Inspector Mukesh Mehta of the Amraiwadi Police Station.