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Efforts on to nab killers of youth

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV. 23. The Rural Police are investigating a city-based gang in connection with the murder of Punnackal Santhosh (26), whose body was found in an autorickshaw at Valiyarakonam in Malayankeezhu police station limits on Monday night.

According to the police, Santhosh was kidnapped by an armed gang from a barbershop in Thaliyal in Fort police station limits at around 4 p.m. on Monday. The gang members were travelling in a red Tata Sumo van.

At around 7.30 p.m., a fatally injured Santhosh was helped into an autorickshaw by two unidentified persons wielding swords near Four Cents Colony in Vilapilsala. The autorickshaw driver panicked and alerted the police.

The police said intra-gang rivalry is the motive for the murder. Santhosh is accused in some assault and robbery cases registered by the Vilapilsala police. He was associated for sometime with a local gang in Vilaplisala.

Santhosh is also known to have links with several city-based criminal gangs, the police said. The body of Santhosh was handed over to relatives after post-mortem examination at the Medical College Hospital here.

17 arrested

The city police have arrested 17 persons in connection with the RSS-CPI(M) clash in Poojappura area on Sunday.

The police identified the arrested persons as Niranjan (27), Rinu Sankar (20), Ajith (19), Vijay (21), Sharif (39), Babu (32), Manoj (20), Lalu (25), Aju (23), Harikumar (30), Rejan (24), Manoj (23), Rajesh (23), Hari (23), Unnikrishnan (23), Shyam (23) and Dinesh (25).

Seven of the arrested persons are CPI(M) workers and the rest BJP activists, the police said. They were produced before the court on charges of rioting, unlawful assembly and trespass. All were remanded to judicial custody.

Shop attacked

A three-member gang this evening attacked a shop at Statue junction and made good with eight mobile phones.

According to the police, the gang reached the shop at Capitol commercial complex selling electronic goods and curios around 8.45 p.m. and asked for mobile phones. The salesman Zainulabdin showed them four mobile phones. The trio said that they wanted the phones but would make the payment later. When Zainulabdin objected, they hacked him with a sword and attacked two others, Nawaz and Askar, with iron rods. They took eight phones from the shop and escaped. The police have registered a case but none has been arrested.

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