Moral police kill footballer

In an alleged act of moral policing, Kerala junior football team vice-captain Jithu Mohan, 23, was set on fire for being in love with a girl belonging to another religion.

The footballer, a degree student, succumbed to his injuries at General Hospital in Kochi late on Tuesday night. In his statement before his death, Mohan told the magistrate that the girl’s brother-in-law Wahad, a constable, with the help of others set him ablaze at his residence in Kodungallur on Monday. He said that he had gone to Wahad’s residence to meet the girl where she had been confined.

But police rejected his statement and said Mohan poured set himself ablaze when denied permission to meet the girl.