Two arrested for assaulting tribal youth in Kerala

They work as a driver and assistant for a milk collection vehicle.

According to the complaint, the victim, 19-year-old Siju from Chittoor Unnati, was walking along the Chittoor–Puliyara road in the afternoon of May 24 when he allegedly slipped and fell near a passing pickup van.

The accused claimed he had fallen deliberately to block the road and had damaged the vehicle.

The two men then allegedly tied him to a roadside electric pole and left him there for about 30 minutes, until passers-by released him.

Siju is currently being treated at a hospital, police said.

The men have been booked under relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), they added.