Overview

• Officers registered a case and said the resort owner and employees are absconding as efforts to trace them continue.
• The 54-year-old labourer says he was assaulted during six days of unlawful confinement and given little food.
• A group of Dalit activists with Muthalamada councillor Kalpana Devi forced their way into the compound after a tip and located him.
• Police, assisted by local residents, broke open the locked room and moved the victim to the Government District Hospital in Palakkad.
• He had started work at the resort on August 17, and activists allege the owner, named Prabhu, locked him up for drinking liquor kept there.