A court here on Friday sentenced five men to life imprisonment for beating to death a 42-year-old man in 2016 in a suspected moral policing incident at Mankada here.
Additional District and Sessions Judge I Thushar M sentenced the
five men -- Abdul Nazar, Sharafudheen, Suhail, Abdul Gafoora and Sakkeer Hussain -- to life imprisonment and said that such instances of mob lynching should be discouraged, special public prosecutor (SPP) P G Mathew told reporters outside the court.