Father makes one-year-old drink beer, caught

In an incident that may give jitters to any parent, a man in Vasai was caught in camera making his one-year-old daughter drink beer while his friends watched nonchalantly. The pictures of the man doing so was circulated among senior police officers, following which they laid a trap and caught him while he was riding his two-wheeler.

Shankar Mukund Das, a resident of posh Aggarwal Residency, was standing Vasant Nagari, which is a stone's throw away from the additional district superintendent of police's office, and drinking beer with his bunch of friends. As the friends took turns from sipping from the bottle, Das made his daughter too drink off it.

"As soon as we received the pictures, we formed teams and were trying to track them. We found the accused on a two-wheeler. He has confessed that he did feed his daughter with beer while he was with his friends," said a Tulinj police officer.

"The man was along with his friends and had started his gatari celebrations a day before. He was drunk. We have sent them for a medical test at the VVMC-run civic hospital," added the officer.

Investigation officer Yogesh Salokhe said, "We will send the samples of blood to the Forensic Laboratory in Kalina for detailed reports. The primary reports have confirmed that the baby had alcohol in her blood and the father was drunk," informed the officer.

Confirming about the pictures clicked by this correspondent, the officer said, "We will present the pictures in Vasai court and will produce him to charges him under relevant sections of the Mumbai Police Act and Juvenile Justice Act."