Coimbation: City Police on Wednesday arrested two people, one of them small children, owned by Hindu Munnani for embarrassing St.
Sebastian’s statue at the Holy Tritian Church near Puliypulam here on Sunday night.
Ramanathapuram police identified one of the accused at the age of 23 years M Madkumar aka, a truck driver from Vellalore.
The boys, who are 16 years old, are Olympus residents in Ramanathapuram.
Police officers said they had launched the hunt for Murthy alias Marudhachalamurthy and Deepak, both Hindu members, in connection with this case.
“They are on the run.” Agriculture agriculture revealed that Deepak was the mastermind behind the incident.
“He was the one who jumped over the compound wall of the Church and harmed the statue on Sunday at around 10pm.
The little boy, who was a class X student, dropped it in the church with a motorcycle, while Madankumar monitored the movements of people in the area.
Murthy chose Deepak at On a motorcycle after damaging the statue, “the officer said.
Arrested told the police that they harmed the statue to take revenge for the death of Lavanya, a class XII student in Tharvur.
The girl committed suicide on January 19 after she was reportedly forced to enter Christianity.
Four had been booked below 60 (b), 153a, 448, 427 and 295 read with 34 of the Indian criminal code.
The police have formed a special team to catch Deepak and Murthy.
“The small boy was produced before the Juvenile Justice Council and nested in the observation of houses for teenagers in Mills Lakshmi,” the officer said.