Rakbar Khan Lynching: The mob thought they had been smuggling cows.
New Delhi/Alwar:
Four folks had been sentenced to 7 years in jail by a Rajasthan court docket in the present day for killing a farmer over the suspicion of cattle smuggling in 2018.
Rakbar Khan and his pal Aslam had been attacked by a mob of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar in July 2018. Rakbar was overwhelmed with sticks and stones whereas his pal managed to flee.
The 4 males – Dharmendra Yadav, Paramjeet, Vijay Kumar and Naresh Kumar have been held responsible beneath the costs of culpable murder and wrongful restraint.
One particular person, nonetheless, was let off by the court docket over inadequate proof.
“Nawal Kishore has been acquitted on account of inadequate proof in opposition to him,” Ashok Sharma, Special Public Prosecutor, mentioned.
The police had taken Rakbar Khan to a hospital allegedly after shifting his cows to a shelter. By that point, the 31-year-old was useless.
{A photograph} of Rakbar Khan sitting inside a police automotive had raised questions concerning the position of the police within the assault. The picture had been circulated by Naval Kishore, the person who had positioned a name to the police concerning the assault and accompanied them for many of their three-hour journey via the world earlier than Rakbar Khan was taken to the hospital.
The incident had led to an outcry over the alleged delay by the cops in taking Rakbar Khan to the hospital. A judicial probe was additionally ordered by then Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria – who mentioned that the person could have lived had the police taken him to hospital instantly, as an alternative of taking the cows to a shelter first.
Rakbar Khan’s post-mortem report had acknowledged that he died of shock because of his accidents.
“There had been accidents on the physique… inner bleeding result in the demise,” mentioned Rajeev Gupta, one of many docs who carried out the post-mortem.