PATHANAMTHITTA: A youth from Pathanamthitta who came to meet a 16-year-old girl in Kollam with a birthday cake at night, was beaten by her relatives. The incident happened on Tuesday at Thevalakkara in Kollam.

The youth identified as Muhammad Nahas (22) of Kummannur in Pathanamthitta, was injured. The Thekkumbhagam police in Kollam registered a POCSO case against him on the complaint of her relatives that he had trespassed in the house and tried to harm her.

Nahas said the girl's relatives tied and hung him up, then beat him after tying a coconut in a cloth, rubbed a matchstick on his ear. The police said that no complaint has been received in this regard.

Her relatives said that Nahas used to constantly annoy the girl. As he went on annoying her, the girl was shifted her to her relative's house in Thevalakkara. When he came home with a cake, her relatives stopped him and attacked him. There are beat marks on his body. The police arrived and released him. Nahas is under treatment now.