Mistaking a watch seller for a child lifter, a group thrashed a 55-year-old man from Karnataka in Musiri on Friday. The Jambunathapuram police have booked a case against 15 persons in this connection.
According to the police, Rasappa, 55, from Koodalur in Karnataka had been staying with his friends at a private hostel and sells watches and torchlights for a living.
On Thursday, Mr. Rasappa was at Valaiyedupu village in Thathaiyangarpet to sell his products in the afternoon. Seeing him, a few residents of the village raised an alarm suspecting that he was a kidnapper targeting children.
