PERINTHALMANNA: A youth who went to a wedding after dressing himself as a woman was thoroughly beaten up by a gang. The incident happened the other day at Perinthalmanna in Malappuram.

Edathanattukara native Shefeeq was beaten up by a team after he was mistaken for a thief.

But interestingly Shafeeq told the police that he was forced to wear the woman’s dress.

In the complaint given by Shafeeq, it is said that he reached Perinthalmanna to donate old clothes to orphanage but suddenly a gang approached him, opened his bag and forced him to wear salwar from the collection he had in the bag. After that they pushed him into the wedding hall.

Meanwhile, the police have not believed the story but still they are searching for the people who had assaulted Shafeeq.
The police are trying to find out the people who booked the auditorium and catch the accused with the help of mobile phone photos.