MALAPPURAM: A 23-year-old man committed suicide on Friday night, a day after he was assaulted in an apparent act of ‘moral policing’ at Kuttippala in the district. Mohammed Sajid was found hanging at home around 9pm.The videos and photographs of Sajid, being tied and beaten up by the attackers, have been doing rounds on the social media.Kalpakanchery police said Sajid was attacked by a group of people at Panikarppadi, around 1km away from his home on August 27.Police received a call informing them about the incident, from local residents, around 2am on Tuesday. When a night patrolling team arrived at the scene, they spotted Sajid and there were no visible signs of assault on him. He was taken to the police station and released in the evening after a medical examination. No case was registered as there was no formal complaint.However, visuals of the attackers questioning Sajid and beating him up, were widely circulated on the social media in the following days. The victim was tied with ropes and thrashed alleging that he attempted to rob a house in the locality.Local residents said Sajid must have killed himself after finding the humiliation unbearable. People’s representatives have already demanded a detailed investigation into the incident. “We have demanded a probe into the involvement of local goons in the attack. Strong action needs to be taken also against those who circulated the visuals,” said Tanur block panchayat president C K A Rasaq.Kalpakanchery police maintained that there were no injury marks on Sajid and ruled out the possibility of a brutal attack. “Initially, we suspected that it was the outcome of moral policing of a gang. But the medical examination pointed out that he was not assaulted. As he did not register any complaint, we decided to release him without registering case,” said a senior police official attached to the Kalapakancheri police station. He said the police will investigate the moral policing angle as well in the backdrop of the fresh allegations and that the investigation team will examine the visuals of assault, which were circulated on the social media.Sajid’s body was handed over to relatives after a postmortem at the Kozhikode Government Medical College. He is survived by father Musthafa and mother Mariyamu.