Reason: Every morning at 3 am, his neighbour's rooster would begin its relentless crowing, making it difficult for him to sleep and disrupting his peaceful life. Kurup, unwell, had had enough.

In the quiet village of Pallickal in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, a rather bizarre legal dispute came to light: not over land or money, but over a rooster's relentless crowing in the early ...