All steps will be taken to ensure that the accused in the Madhu lynching case at Attappady got deserving punishment, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
He was replying to a question on witnesses turning hostile in the case during Question Hour in the Assembly on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister said a witness protection cell had been set up by the Palakkad District and Sessions Court to provide all help to witnesses and the prosecution in the Madhu case. The cell had been formed the after the police submitted a detailed report before the Palakkad sessions court.