7 Year Jail To 13 For Beating Kerala Man To Death For Stealing Food In 2018
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Delivering the sentence, the court said, "Moral policing cannot be encouraged in civil society".
A special court in Kerala today sentenced to seven years' imprisonment the 13 people convicted for beating a tribal man to death for allegedly stealing food articles in 2018 in Palakkad district.
Delivering the sentence, the court said, "Moral policing cannot be encouraged in civil society".
Madhu, a tribal man from Attappady, was beaten to death after he was caught and tied up by a group of local people, who accused him of theft on February 22, 2018.
More than five years after the incident, special court judge K M Ratheesh Kumar sentenced 13 out of the 16 accused in the case to seven years in jail for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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