The probe into the death of a five-year-old boy in Tamil Nadu has endured a shocking twist that was made possible by the emergence of new evidence that had revealed that the boy was left on a pushcart by unidentified persons. While the police have been investigating the details of a boy, this twist has stirred a new turn for the probe in the direction of whether he could have been killed and left on the cart or he was intentionally put to food starvation. 

The boy was found dead lying on a roadside food pushcart near the Villupuram- Chennai highway. He was discovered lying on a piece of cloth on the pushcart on December 15. The reports have said that the boy died of starvation or dehydration and while the incident shook the state, the police have denied that his death was due to starvation or dehydration and said that he has died due to an illness.

Earlier, speaking to a news agency, the police inspector of Villupuram West Police has said that the boy was already dead and brought to the cart. He had died following an illness, which was revealed by the autopsy reports. He said that the evidence was being gathered to know the illness that he was suffering from at the time of his death. The autopsy report has said that the boy had neither suffered any external or internal injuries nor he had shown signs of abuse. 

The police inspector has affirmed that whoever left the boy on a pushcart had brought him dead and the department has been probing the case to trace his identity and collect more evidence. The police had filed a case under section 174 - suspicious death and attempts to identify the boy's parents are underway. Days after the incident, the case has now endured a shocking twist where the police have obtained key evidence from the CCTV camera footage in the vicinity. 

According to our sources, the footage had shown that two unidentified persons were carrying the boy and left him on the food pushcart and fled the place. The camera had covered them walking from a street near to the BSNL Office in Villupuram and placed the boy on the cart. Based on the evidence, the police had initiated the search to detain the two persons and begun investigations on the grounds that the boy could have been murdered or that he would have been kidnapped by the mob that would threaten the children to beg for the money and the gang could have put him starved for food and after his death, he could have been placed on the pushcart.