Moolathara accused of lynching taken into custody

Seven youths arrested in connection with the lynching of an unidentified man at Moolathara near Chittur were on Wednesday produced before a court and remanded in judicial custody.

They were Sooryaprakash, 22, Kathiresan, 23, Karthik, 26, Naveen, 24, Prashanth, 35, Manikandan, 25, and Sanjay, 27, all from Srambi village in Kozhinjampara.

The incident took place on Saturday evening. A man was found dead under suspicious circumstances near Moolathara regulator on Sunday morning.

The police initially registered a case of unnatural death. However, a postmortem conducted at the Government Medical College in Thrissur on Monday confirmed that it was a case of murder.

An intensive investigation by the police focusing on CCTV footage from the area led to the arrest of the accused within hours.

According to their statement to the police, the accused followed the man for about a kilometer and attacked him on Saturday around 10 pm.

Local residents said they had seen the man, aged in his 40s, in and around the area for about a week. However, no one knew his identity or other details about him.

The investigation has been extended to Tamil Nadu to ascertain the identity of the victim. Chittur’s Deputy Superintendent of Police M. Sasidharan is leading the investigation.

Published – 14 Oct 2026 20:24 IST