By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
Malappuram: Tension prevailed in Malappuram after a 32-year-old man who converted to Islam six months ago was murdered on the wee hours of Saturday.
Faisal was brutally hacked to death in Kodinhi by the roadside.His body was found by local residents at around 5 am on their way to mosque for dawn prayers.
Faisal P, son of Ananthan Nair, converted to Islam while working in Saudi Arabia. He had been preparing to fly back to the Middle East before his murder.
He returned home only four months ago after working in Gulf for a year.
He was going to Parappanangadi railway station to pick his father-in-law Karthikeyan K P, who was coming from Thiruvananthapuram.
Karthikeyan also said that Faisal had promised him that he would come the station to pick them up and they were waiting for him at the station in the morning.
The auto-rickshaw he had used for transportation, was found abandoned by the dead body.
Quoting neighbors, local media reports said that he had received threats even from his family members after he accepted Islam.
Faisal, who was born in Thiruvananthapuram, relocated to Kodinhi, from where his father Ananthan Nair married his mother Meenakshi.
The tragic death of Faisal has however left his family in uncertainty as he was one, whom five members relied up on.
Priya, his wife, is studying at Maunathul Islamic Sabha at Ponnani after she embraced Islam recently. The couple have three children studying Islamic Education Centre (IEC) High School at Kodinhi.
A forensic team from Thrissur, a dog squad and a team of fingerprint experts visited the site of the incident.
Local residents also expressed shock over the incident and sad demise of Faisal.
“He has harmed no one and was ready to extend any help to the people in need. We wonder how he could be killed,” said Faisal’s friend Aboobackar P.
His body was buried after post-mortem was held at Kozhikode Government Medical College.
Tirurangadi police has initiated a probe into the death. Police told Twocircles that a case had been registered on 302. The police has not received any clues about the culprits.
Police force has been deployed in the region to avert unwanted incidents.