{"id":26927,"date":"2017-09-14T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=26927"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:03:35","slug":"nobody-killed-pehlu-khan-accused-released-case-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/nobody-killed-pehlu-khan-accused-released-case-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody killed Pehlu Khan: Accused released, case closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Nuh in Haryana, was lynched on the suspicion of carrying cattle for slaughter near Alwar on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_666635399\">April 1<\/span>\u00a0this year<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the dying declaration of dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, who was lynched on the suspicion of carrying cattle for slaughter on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_666635400\">April 1<\/span>near Alwar, six men who had been booked on lynch-mob allegations have been cleared and the case closed by the police. This means that there is nobody at present who can be shown as a suspect in the gruesome murder.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_666635401\">April 1<\/span>\u00a0this year, Khan (55) and his two sons were transporting cows after purchasing them in a cattle fair in Jaipur, to their hometown Nuh in Haryana. They were waylaid on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway near Behror in Alwar district by a mob of cow vigilantes and beaten up on suspicion that they were carrying the cattle for slaughter. Pehlu Khan succumbed to his injuries after two days.<\/p>\n<p>A report in The Hindustan Times says that investigations into the horrific and inhumane incident have been closed by the Rajasthan Police. The daily also claims that the police was under pressure by influential right-wing people to protect cow vigilante groups. Such vigilante groups, colloquially called\u00a0<em>\u2018gau rakshaks\u2019<\/em>\u00a0have so far killed 29 people on mere suspicion of them either carrying cattle for slaughter or consuming beef.<\/p>\n<p>There was enough evidence \u2013 including phone records \u2013 that three of the six in question were actually linked to Hindu right-wing organisations, the daily said.<\/p>\n<p>The daily says: \u201cThe staff of the cow shelter, Rath Gaushala, has maintained that the six \u2013 Om Yadav (45), Hukum Chand Yadav (44), Sudhir Yadav (45), Jagmal Yadav (73), Naveen Sharma (48) and Rahul Saini (24) \u2013 were present on their premises, which was about four-km from the attack site. Rath Gaushala is patronised by Jagmal Yadav.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The daily quotes a police report in this, which says: \u201cThe statements of witnesses in the case including policemen and the employees of the Rath Gaushala indicate that none of the accused was present at the time of the attack. Call record details of the six people along with Base Transceiver Station (BTS) location of mobiles further support this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the findings of the investigating officer, it is hereby recommended that the names of the six accused be removed from the case as they have been found not guilty,\u201d the report said, according to the daily.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights groups have expressed outrage over the closure of investigation in the murder of Pehlu Khan.<\/p>\n<p>In Jaipur, People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which spearheaded a campaign for getting justice to the victims in the case, said the police were protecting the accused. \u201cThe CB-CID, which was investigating the lynching is under direct control of the Home Minister. Its blatant bias is very obvious,\u201d PUCL president Kavita Srivastava said.<\/p>\n<p>PUCL is likely to move court against the closure of investigation in the case. \u201cThe court will not allow closure without issuing notice to the complainants. We will expose the illegality of police action in the court,\u201d Srivastava said.<\/p>\n<p>The rights groups are also worried about safety of the participants in the \u201cKarwan-e-Mohabbat\u201d \u2013 a nationwide march being organised by NGO Aman Biradari and being led by activist and former bureaucrat Harsh Mander \u2013 which will be passing through Behror\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_666635402\">on Friday<\/span>\u00a0en route to Jaipur. Some right-wing groups have threatened that they would not allow the activists to enter the town and stop the march on the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Nuh in Haryana, was lynched on the suspicion of carrying cattle for slaughter near Alwar on\u00a0April 1\u00a0this year Ignoring the dying declaration of dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, who was lynched on the suspicion of carrying cattle for slaughter on\u00a0April 1near Alwar, six men who had been booked on lynch-mob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[11999,3248,20184,20183,3450],"yst_prominent_words":[20177,20173,20169,20172,20167,5810,20178,20179,20181,20171,20182,20175,20170,4000,20174,18476,20176,20168,13571,20180],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pehlu-khan-lynching.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26927"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=26927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->