thiruvananthapuram a 20yearold youth was brutally assaulted by a group of men on saturday nightsufiyan son of sulaiman of kuzhivilakam house at beemapally east was admitted to a hospital with serious injuries on head face and neck poonthura police have registered a case against seven persons ashkar hashim ashique and aadil and three unidentified persons in connection with the incident police said the attack was related to a relationship sufiyan was involved in the accused approached sufiyan to withdraw from the affair the accused along with his friends waited for sufiyan outside the mosque on saturday night and assaulted himthe police registered a case on his compliant on sunday morning under sections of the ipc 308 attempt to commit culpable homicide 506 for criminal intimidation 324 for causing hurt using a weapon 323 for causing simple hurt 294b for abusing 341 for wrongful restraint and 34 for criminal acts done by a groupwe have intensified the search for the accused as they are absconding sufiyan was employed at a juice shop at thampanoor said the police