Junaid case: SC admits plea for CBI probe, stays trial
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the trial of the Haryana mob lynching case in which 17-year-old Junaid Khan was stabbed to death on a train in June last year and agreed to examine his father’s plea seeking a CBI probe into the incident.
The father of victim said that investigation by the Haryana police was so “manipulated” as to give it the shape of a conflict or a clash rather than a “sinister one-sided hate attack on helpless victims”.
A bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and MM Shantanagoudar issued notice to the Centre, Haryana and the CBI on the plea and stayed the proceedings in the case before the Faridabad trial court till further orders.
Junaid, who had boarded a Mathura-bound train from Delhi on June 22 last year, was allegedly stabbed to death when the train was nearing Ballabgarh in Haryana. He was returning home to Khandawali village along with his brothers and cousins after shopping in Delhi for Eid. His body was dumped
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near Asaoti village in Faridabad district.
Junaid’s father has challenged the Punjab and Haryana high court’s November 27 last year’s order that had said there was no substance in the petition to indicate that the investigation was tainted or shoddy.
The high court had said that there appeared to be no “deliberate attempt” to derail the investigation in the matter and the case had no “national or international ramifications”.
Senior advocate RS Cheema and advocate Tarannum Cheema, appearing for Jalalludin, said the investigating agency has carried out a “seem-