Abhimanyu was a student activist stabbed to death in Maharaja's College, Ernakulam on 2 July 2018.
[3][4] Abhimanyu was born on 6 May 1997 as the youngest son of Manoharan and Bhoopathy, two Tamil peasants from an Adivasi community, in Vattavada.
[5] His sister Kowsalya married Madhusudanan in a wedding attended by hundreds of students from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam.
[11] Abhimanyu painted graffiti on the campus walls to welcome the new batch of students and he wrote "down with communalism".
[4] The Special Investigation Team of Kerala Police charge sheeted 16 persons at the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II in Ernakulam on September 24, 2018.
[10] The following were named in the charge sheet: JI Muhammed (CFI state secretary), Arif Bin Salim (CFI district president), Mohammed Rifa, Jeffrey, Fazaluddin, Anas, Rajeeb, Abdul Rashid Saneesh, Adil Bin Salim, Bilal, Riyaz Hussain, Saneesh, Sharukh Amani, Abdul Nasser and Anup.
[42] Police found that the culprits arrived at college hostel armed with lethal weapons to attack maximum student activists.