Georgetown: A City Businessman has committed suicide after a video went viral on Social Media and Youtube of him verbally abusing the traffic ranks during a traffic jam recently at the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Dead is Tulsi Persaud (Jnr) who was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after ingesting gramoxone.
The video, which garnered over 172,262 views, 1700 shares, 1395 comments and 1476 likes showed Persaud being verbally abusive to police traffic ranks, telling them that they cannot do anything to him since he is ‘Tulsi Persaud.’
Relatives claimed that the video was doctored and posted on the popular internet site facebook and caused Persaud to become depressed due to the racial and threatening response that followed.
Sanjay Persaud of Sanjay’s Jewellery noted that after the doctored video was posted online, his nephew began to feel embarrassed and became afraid when racial and threatening comments were posted.
The businessman said that relatives had asked the person who posted it to remove the video but he refused. “If my nephew dies, I think the person responsible should be charged for posting the video, or I will personally take legal action,” Sanjay Persaud said.
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