The Feroke police on Wednesday arrested a youth on the charge of assaulting a security guard near the LIC godown for questioning him for smoking in the building on Tuesday night.
V.P. Abdul Sanad, 26, hailing from Sagarasarani, Marad, was nabbed after tracing the registration number of the car in which he arrived with his band for having dinner at a restaurant near the file godown of the LIC at Putheri Building at Feroke around 8.30 p.m.
The security guard, Manattupoyil Surendran, 61, who sustained multiple fractures, is recuperating at a private hospital at Cheruvannur. He questioned Sanad for smoking in the building while his four friends were in the restaurant. Mr. Surendran insisted that smoking would be risky as the LIC maintained its files in the building. But an infuriated Sanad quarrelled with Mr. Surendran and hit him on his face and hands with an iron rod he had kept in the car.
Hearing the cries of the victim, a few people came to his rescue. By then, Sanad and his friends escaped from the scene. Mr. Surendran had noted down the registration number of the car.
Mr. Surendran, an employee of the West Hill-based United Security Services, is working as security at the building for the past three years. The police charged the accused under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 341 (wrongful restraint), and 506 (2) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
