Lagatar24 Desk
Jaipur, May 25: A court in Alwar, Rajasthan, sentenced the four accused in the Rakbar Khan mob lynching case to seven years in prison. The court acquitted one defendant, Naval Kishor Sharma, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad member, in the case.
On suspicion of smuggling cows, Rakbar Khan was lynched to death in 2018 in Rajasthan’s Alwar district.
Aslam and Rakbar were passing through Ramgarh in the Alwar district when a mob lynched Rakbar.
The police initially named four suspects in its chargesheet: Naresh Sharma, Vijay Kumar, Dharmendra Yadav, and Paramjit Singh.
Naval Kishor Sharma was detained later and charged with instigating the mob on July 20, 2018.
Sharma was acquitted by the court, but the other four defendants were convicted guilty and given seven years in prison.
On July 21, 2018, a mob of cow vigilantes killed Haryana resident Rakbar Khan (29), beating him to death. A cow smuggling suspicion led to the attack on him.
According to Khan’s post-mortem report, he died from various wounds sustained during the vicious assault. Rabkar died from significant internal bleeding and had 12 wounds on his body. Politicians from all sides of the spectrum had debated the incident.
