The video of a memorial stone at the historic Vasai Fort being damaged by a youth has gone viral, eliciting outrage and calls for action against him, according to a report in this paper. The youth appears to have carved a letter on the stone which he is seen setting afire with a song playing in the background.

The Vasai Fort was christened the Fort of St Sebastian during the Portuguese era and is a monument of national importance protected by the Archaeological Survey of India). It has memorial stones in the name of soldiers, created in 1680 by the Portuguese. There were around 250 fallen soldier’s symbolic memorial stones in the fort but only 150 are visible today while others are damaged and destroyed, claim archaeologists.