A labourer from Bihar was lynched by a group of people at Kizhissery, near Kondotty, in the district on Saturday. Nine men were arrested in connection with the death of Rajesh Manji, who was working at a chicken farm at Kizhissery.
Police said here on Sunday that it was a case of murder and the postmortem report revealed merciless beating by the men with blunt objects like wooden sticks and plastic pipes. Manji died of multiple internal injuries. He had broken his ribs in the attack.
Those arrested included siblings Mohammed Afsal, Fasil, and Sharafuddin. The others were Mehaboob, Abdussamad, Nasar, Habeeb, Ayoob and Zainul Abid. All of them were from Kizhissery.
