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In swift action, the constabulary arrested 4 persons successful transportation with the alleged effort to execution 2 migrant workers who were attacked with an robust rod connected suspicion of transporting cattle to a slaughterhouse astatine Karoda adjacent Hosankadi successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday (February 15, 2026).
The arrested person been identified arsenic Anil Kumar, 23, of Kunchathur, Bharat Raj, 19, of Permuda, Sharath, 19, of Ichilankode, and Rakshit, 21. The constabulary person registered a lawsuit against them nether Sections 189(2), 191(2), 191(3), 126(2), 118(1), 110, 190, and 192 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
They were taken into custody by Manjeswaram constabulary inspector P. Ajith Kumar and his squad pursuing an intensive probe launched aft the incidental triggered controversy.
According to the police, the onslaught occurred astir 1.30 a.m. erstwhile the victims, Furkan, 46, a nonmigratory of Jalalabad, and Daud, 28, a nonmigratory of Kajiwada, some successful Uttar Pradesh, arrived from Palakkad with cattle. The assailants allegedly intercepted them and assaulted them with an robust rod, accusing them of transporting cows for slaughter.
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Furkhan said helium had travel to Kasaragod to oversee the unloading of cattle astatine slaughter shops. He said the attackers questioned the lack of a fig sheet connected the conveyance and asked wherever the cattle were being taken.
“Before we could explicate anything, they began assaulting us,” helium said, adding that helium had nary anterior acquaintance with the attackers and that it was lone his 2nd sojourn to Kasaragod.
Mr. Kumar said a radical of six people, including 1 from a number community, had besides reached the spot successful an autorickshaw and were progressive successful the attack. Their relation is being examined separately successful accordance with juvenile justness procedures.
He said the accused, who were successful an inebriated condition, confronted the victims aft noticing that the cattle were being transported successful a conveyance without a fig plate. They accused them of transporting bullocks illegally and refused to let them to unload the cattle. Those arrested person nary anterior transgression record, helium added.
The injured men sought attraction astatine the District Cooperative Hospital, Kumbala. Their information is reported to beryllium stable. Following nationalist outcry implicit the incident, the constabulary stepped up the investigation, starring to the recognition and apprehension of the 4 accused. Further enquiry is nether mode to ascertain the engagement of others and the circumstances starring to the assault.
