One-liner: Referring to the recent killing of a man by a gang of 12 who chopped off the victim's leg and threw it on the road as they fled the site, the Kerala High Court has termed it as a scary situation in the state.
Why the remarks: The remarks came during the hearing of a batch of petitions related to the assignment of land to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the state.
Why the murder: A man, wanted in an attempt to murder case, was hacked to death and his leg chopped off on Dec 11 by a gang of 12 assailants in Pothencode area of Thiruvananthapuram district.
Gruesome act: On seeing the gang coming to attack him, the victim rushed into the home of his relative, but the assailants also forced themselves into the house and hacked him several times and chopped off his leg in front of others.