THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A youth and his team beat up a criminal case accused until he got exhausted and then chopped off his right hand fingers. This he did to take revenge on the man, who had entered the house and attacked his mother.

The incident happened near Nedumangadu on Wednesday. The man who lost his fingers had been identified as Mottakkavu native Muneer (26). He was attacked under the directions of one Muhammad Shan.

For some time, Muneer had been in jail for hacking Muhammad Shan. Muneer, who was remanded, was out on bail recently. One day he barged into Shan’’s house and attacked his mother to take revenge on Shan, because of whom he had to go to jail.

This time Shan was not at home. When Shan’s brother came down after hearing the commotion, Muneer had left the house after destroying things inside the house.

As soon as Shan came to know about the attack on his mother, he took eight others also with him to Muneer’s rented housed. He broke into the house and beat him black and blue.

Muneer had hacked chicken shop owner Shan one year ago. He entered the shop and hacked him.