Youth ‘slits’ tongue with knife in viral video, arrested

Chennai

The arrested was identified as Augustine of Ezhil Nagar in Perumbakkam. Police said a video went viral on social media recently, wherein a youth was pretending to be sliting his tongue with a knife by acting for a cinema dialogue. A police team, upon identifying the culprit as Augustine of Perumabakkam, arrested him at his house on Sunday and seized his mobile phone with which he recorded the video. The Pallikaranai police, who registered a case, are also searching for his friend who helped him take the video. Augustine was remanded in judicial custody and sent to prison.