chennai a sevenyearold boy on wednesday sat on the road in front of a tasmac shop at padur near chennai under the scorching sun demanding closure of a liquor shop opened in the area recently aakaash anandan studying in class 3 at a private school in siruseri sat on the road and read his textbooks he kept a placard kudiyai vidu padikka vidu leave drinking allow learning the protest went on for about three hours till the sholinganallur tahsildar and the police inspector of the kelambakkam spoke to the boy after which he gave up his protest aakaashs father anandan said the residents of padur continuously protested to close a tasmac shop opened recently last saturday some villagers ransacked the shop and police booked case against 130 people for causing damage to the tasmac shoppolicemen came and searched for the residents in all the houses and it was reported in some newspapers after reading this news aakaash asked me dad can we do something to close the tasmac shop in our vicinity then he opted to go for a peaceful protest to convey message to people anandan saidwhen he was just four years old aakaash had participated in a campaign at a signal on the omr to create awareness among motorcyclists about the need to wear helmets