Moolathara lynching accused remanded

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

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

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