Seven-year-old A Akash stages protest against TASMAC liquor shop in Tamil Nadu

'Kudiyai vidu, padikka vidu' (Renounce the liquor, allow us to study), read the placard the boy was holding. | (Sunish P Surendran | EPS)

At about 11.45 am, Akash took a walk all alone from his home and proceeded towards the liquor shop which was about a kilometer away. | (Sunish P Surendran | EPS)

On being stopped by a police officer in the mid-way the child sat on the middle of the road, in protest and started reading his school book for some time. | (Sunish P Surendran | EPS)

Akash demanded that the people booked under 'false' cases for staging protests on last Saturday be let free. | (Sunish P Surendran | EPS)

The police coaxed him to leave, but Akash was determined and he laid down a towel and sat on the road in the scorching heat. | (Sunish P Surendran | EPS)