28-05-2025
Kerala police arrest two for assaulting and tying 19-year-old tribal man to pole
Two men were arrested by the police for allegedly assaulting a tribal youth. The victim was allegedly tied to an electric pole in Attappadi, in Kerala's Palakkad to police sources, the victim, 19-year-old Siju was walking on the side of a road when he reportedly slipped and fell near a passing milk collection two men, identified as 31-year-old Vishnudas, who was reportedly the driver, and his assistant 21-year-old Reji Mathew, stepped out of the vehicle and claimed that Siju had fallen deliberately to block the road and had damaged the vehicle. The two men then allegedly tied him to a roadside electric pole and left him there for about 30 minutes, until passersby released
Siju is currently being treated at a hospital, police said. The men have been booked under relevant sections of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), they a separate reported atrocity against a tribal person in Kerala, a tribal man named Mathan was dragged 400 m by a car in Wayanad, Kerala, in December 2024, after he intervened in a dispute between tourist was dragged along the Pulpally Road near the village of Koodalkadavu for 400 m until he was abandoned by the accused, who fled the scene. Mathan was hospitalised with serious by Rahen Philip
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