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An aged antheral was brutally assaulted by a radical of youths successful the mediate of the roadworthy allegedly pursuing an statement implicit giving mode to a conveyance astatine Azhikkal successful Kannur, Kerala, astir 4 p.m. connected Sunday.
The victim, Balakrishnan, a autochthonal of Azhikkal, lodged a ailment with the constabulary connected Monday.
A video of the assault, recorded by the assailants themselves, has gone viral. The footage shows Mr. Balakrishnan being beaten portion sitting successful his car, dragged out, and repeatedly slapped successful the look successful afloat nationalist view. Later, the video shows the youths pursuing him into a adjacent store and attacking him again, earlier section residents intervened and drove them away.
In the video, the attackers are heard claiming that Mr. Balakrishnan utilized obscene connection erstwhile questioned astir parking the car.
The constabulary person registered an FIR based connected Mr. Balakrishnan’s ailment and launched an investigation.
Police officers person visited the spot and collected evidence. The accused are yet to beryllium arrested and the constabulary are verifying whether they person immoderate transgression background.
