A day after the emergence of a video footage of a jeep deliberately being driven into a roadside tea shop in Kuttampuzha village near Kothamangalam, injuring multiple persons, the Ernakulam Rural police on Monday registered a case against the driver of the vehicle. The tea shop belonged to a member of a scheduled tribe at Mamalakandam.
The accused has been identified as Ratheeshan aka Kunjan of Mamalakandam. The tea shop owner, Vinod, and his neighbour, a woman who happened to be at the tea shop, were injured in the incident which took the residents by surprise on Sunday around 6 p.m. Both the accused and the victims were in the hospital undergoing treatment. Vinod, originally from a tribal settlement in Metnappara in Kuttampuzha, now resides in a rented house at Mamalakandam.
