The Rajasthan High Court on Monday issued summons to 6 individuals acquitted within the 2017 Pehlu Khan lynching case.
The courtroom “issued a bailable warrant against the accused-defendants to ensure their appearance before this court in an amount of Rs 10,000, which is refundable within a period of eight weeks”. It additionally linked the petition with the 2019 attraction filed by the Rajasthan authorities towards the decrease courtroom’s acquittal order.
In August 2019, a courtroom in Alwar Six accused acquitted, giving them the good thing about the doubt and observing that there have been “serious deficiencies” within the investigation by the Rajasthan Police and it was an indication of “gross negligence”.
On April 1, 2017, Pehlu and 4 others, together with her two sons, had been returning to their house in Haryana from a cattle truthful on the outskirts of Jaipur after they had been attacked by cow vigilantes in Behror, Alwar. The mob accused him of being an animal smuggler and assaulted him, resulting in Pehlu’s demise two days later.
On Monday, a High Court bench of Justices Govardhan Bardhar and Vijay Bishnoi allowed the appeals of their sons and kin Azmat and Rafiq towards Vipin Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Kaluram, Dayanand, Yogesh and Bhim Singh, all of whom was acquitted.
In March 2020, two different accused had been convicted by the Juvenile Justice Board, whereas a 3rd, who was then a juvenile, remains to be absconding.
Senior advocate Nasir Ali Naqvi, who filed the attraction on behalf of Pehlu’s kin, mentioned that “the High Court prima facie found that there was some substance in the appeal, and has therefore summoned the accused by way of bailable warrant”.
“Our competition was that the injured are eyewitnesses, and they’re naming the accused. Then, the deceased suffered a number of accidents and died resulting from these accidents, together with the truth that weapons had been recovered from the accused. Despite this, the trial courtroom rejected the testimony of the eyewitnesses.
In 2019, Additional District Judge Sarita Swamy had famous a number of discrepancies within the investigation to conclude that good thing about doubt ought to be given to the accused. The courtroom had famous how the accused weren’t named in Pehlu Khan’s assertion, and the police had not confiscated the cell phone used to report the video of the lynching, which was the idea of the cost sheet.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
