Overview
- Ramnarayan, 31, a migrant worker from Chhattisgarh, was beaten by locals in Walayar on December 17 after accusations of theft or of being a foreign national.
- The post-mortem at Thrissur Medical College documented more than 80 injuries and concluded he died from severe head injury and blood loss.
- Five residents of Attappallam — Murali, Prasad, Anu, Bipin and Anandan — have been arrested, booked for murder under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and remanded.
- Kerala’s State Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance and directed the Palakkad police chief to file a report within three weeks.
- Activists demand the crime be officially recorded as mob lynching, seek ₹25 lakh compensation and state-paid transport of the body, while the family alleges delayed and incomplete police notification.