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When mob takes law into its own hands: another man lynched in Keralam’s Palakkad
The Moolathara lynching reflects a recurring pattern—suspicion becomes accusation, and a crowd assumes the authority to deliver punishment.
Contusions piled upon contusions. As forensic surgeon Hithesh Sanker examined the battered body that was laid on the post-mortem table, suspicion gave way to a grim realisation—this was no ordinary death.
Spotlight / Keralam / murder / crime, law and justice
- man
- keralam
- palakkad
- mob
- law
- hand
- lynching
- moolathara
