Chennai: A Facebook post of an image, in which a friend is seen holding onto a booze bottle in a party during a recent road trip, led to the death of a 25-year-old man who posted and shared it, on Sunday night. Two friends, both final year students – one is pursuing engineering and the other architecture — were arrested in this connection.
The deceased Gowtham, (21), of Triplicane, was lured to a spot in Ayodhi Kuppam by a quartet including the aggrieved youth who is pursuing final year engineering course in a private college here.
Gowtham along with Md. Parvesh, (21), final year student, along with a few others, went on a trip to Bengaluru, a few weeks ago.
During the trip, the gang boozed on different occasions while Gowtham had taken a picture of Md. Parvesh holding liquor. Gowtham had reportedly posted the same in his FB page and had also shared it despite Parvesh’s request not to share it.
This caused an unease among the friends since most of their family members were in FB and that began drawing negative criticism.
The friends, also used to disagree with the performance of their bikes, and used to compete with each other on city roads to establish their supremacy in riding and owning the machine.
“Gowtham who had studied up to class 12 got acquainted with Md. Parvesh, Deepak Kumar, who is pursuing B.Arch, and a few others since they went to the same tuition teacher. Ever since school days, they had been hanging out together. Though they used to always disagree on bikes, stayed friends most of the time until the Bengaluru trip”, said a senior police officer privy to the investigation.
Parvesh rang up Gowtham to come near Ayodhi Kuppam where the latter was reportedly thrashed. Gowtham who collapsed died on the way to hospital.
