The blade found its mark more than ten times
In the village of Peringassery in Thodupuzha, Kerala, a long-simmering dispute over property between two brothers reached its most irreversible end on a Monday evening, when the younger took the life of the elder. Rajan, a fifty-eight-year-old farmer who worked the land and raised a family, was stabbed more than ten times from behind by his brother Biju, forty-five, near their shared neighborhood. What neighbors and relatives had witnessed as recurring quarrels over inheritance had quietly hardened into something fatal. The case stands as a somber reminder that unresolved grievances within families do not simply fade — they accumulate, until one day they do not.
- A farmer named Rajan was stabbed over ten times from behind on a village road, dying from wounds inflicted by the one person who shared his blood and his history.
- The attack was not impulsive — more than ten stab wounds suggest a sustained assault, a series of choices made in violence rather than a single moment of lost control.
- Family members had long known the tension existed, witnessing repeated quarrels over property, yet the dispute was never resolved before it turned lethal.
- Biju was arrested by Karimannoor police shortly after the attack and now faces murder charges, while Rajan's wife Vijayamma and son Sumesh are left to grieve.
- The property at the center of the dispute remains unresolved, and the investigation continues to document how deeply and how long the conflict had been building.
On a Monday evening around six o'clock, Rajan — a fifty-eight-year-old farmer known to his community as Mani — was walking near his home in Peringassery, Thodupuzha, when he was attacked from behind. The attacker was his younger brother Biju, forty-five, who struck him with a knife more than ten times. Rajan was rushed to hospital, but the wounds were beyond repair. He did not survive.
What brought two brothers to this point was not a sudden quarrel but years of accumulated tension over property — disputes that relatives had witnessed, arguments that had erupted and subsided and erupted again. The violence of the attack, with its many repeated blows, spoke less to a single moment of rage than to something long-held finally breaking open.
Rajan had built his life in that village with his wife Vijayamma and their son Sumesh. Biju lived nearby — close enough that shared land and inheritance could become a daily source of friction. Police from Karimannoor station arrested Biju shortly after the attack. His brother's body now lies in the district hospital mortuary.
The property the two men fought over remains in dispute, but Rajan will not be there to claim his share. The investigation is ongoing, and the full shape of the conflict — how it began, how long it lasted, what it was truly about — is still being pieced together by police. What is already clear is the cost: a family broken, a life ended, and a community left to reckon with how quietly such tragedies take root.
On a Monday evening around six o'clock, a man was stabbed repeatedly on a road near his home in Peringassery, a village in the Udumbanoor area of Thodupuzha. The victim, Rajan—known also as Mani—was fifty-eight years old and worked as a farmer. He was attacked from behind by someone wielding a knife, the blade finding its mark more than ten times across his body. He was rushed to the hospital, but the injuries were too severe. He did not survive.
The person who stabbed him was his own younger brother, Biju, forty-five years old. Police from the Karimannoor station took him into custody shortly after the attack. What had driven one brother to kill another was not sudden rage or a moment's madness, but something that had been building for years—a dispute over property that had festered between them, erupting periodically into quarrels. Relatives had witnessed these arguments. They knew the tension existed. They told police about it after Rajan was dead.
Rajan lived in Peringassery Boundary, in the Eenthungal area, with his wife Vijayamma and their son Sumesh. He was a farmer—a man who worked the land, who had built a life in that village. His brother Biju lived nearby, close enough that property lines and inheritance claims could become a daily irritant, close enough that a walk down the road could turn into a confrontation. The police believe that on Monday evening, whatever restraint had held between them finally broke.
The attack was savage. More than ten wounds. The kind of violence that suggests not a single moment of loss of control but a sustained assault—multiple stab wounds mean multiple decisions to strike, multiple moments in which the attacker could have stopped but did not. Rajan was taken to the hospital, but the damage was beyond repair. He died from his injuries.
Now Rajan's body lies in the district hospital mortuary while police continue their investigation. His wife and son are left without him. The property that the brothers fought over remains in dispute, but Rajan will not be there to claim his share. Biju sits in custody, charged with his brother's murder. The case is being treated as a homicide arising from domestic conflict—one more instance in which a family dispute, allowed to fester and harden over time, has ended in death. The investigation is ongoing, and the details of what exactly the property dispute entailed, and how long it had been simmering, are still being documented by police.
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What made this particular quarrel turn violent when so many property disputes in families never do?
That's the question police are still working through. What we know is that these weren't isolated arguments—relatives had seen the pattern, the recurring tension. Something about Monday evening broke whatever threshold had held before.
Was there any warning? Did anyone see it coming?
The relatives knew about the disputes. Whether anyone sensed it would end this way, we don't know yet. But the fact that they immediately told police about the history of quarreling suggests they understood the brothers' relationship was dangerous.
Over what, specifically, was the property dispute?
That detail hasn't been made public yet. The investigation is still gathering those specifics. But it was enough to create a pattern of conflict between two men living near each other.
How does a farmer end up in this situation—killed by his own brother?
He was living his life in his village, working his land, supporting his family. And the person closest to him—his brother—became the threat. That's what makes it a tragedy rather than just a crime.
What happens to the family now?
His wife and son are left without him. The property they were fighting over is still there, still disputed, but Rajan won't be part of that resolution anymore. That's the weight of it.