- Khan and his companions — including his sons — were attacked by cow vigilantes in Alwar for transporting cattle on April 1, 2017. Khan died two days later, with the incident resulting in nationwide outrage.
The court of the additional district judge number 1, Alwar is likely to pronounce its verdict against the men accused of lynching dairy farmer Pehlu Khan. At present, seven accused have been tried in the Alwar court while three other accused, who were minors at the time of the crime, are being tried separately at a juvenile court.
Apart from the juveniles, on the basis of video and other evidence, the police had arrested six men — Vipin Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Kaluram, Dayaram, Yogesh Kumar alias Dholia, and Bhim Rathi — charging them under sections 147, 323, 341, 302, 308, 379 and 427 of the IPC, Public prosecutor Yogendra Khatana told The Indian Express.
Khatana added that the prosecution presented 44 witnesses in the case during the trial which concluded on August 7. The case was initially tried in Behror but was later transferred to Alwar after witnesses in the case —Azmat (28) and Rafiq (25) including Pehlu Khan’s two sons Irshad (28) and Arif (21) — alleged in September last year that they were fired upon while they were going for a hearing.
Back in 2017, after a probe by the CID-CB of the Rajasthan Police, the officials had given a clean chit to all six named by Khan in his statement before dying. The clean chit had resulted in widespread criticism for the then BJP government in Rajasthan.