Pehlu Khan case: HC directs trial court to submit documents
JAIPUR: The divisional bench of High Court in Jaipur on Thursday directed the trail Court in Alwar to submit all the relevant material pertaining to Pehlu Khan case.
“The High Court has asked the Alwar ADJ court to submit all files and documents related to Pehlu Khan case,” said additional advocate general RP Singh
On October 14, state government had filed an appeal against the verdict in the case.
On November 3, chief minister Ashok Gehlot at a meeting, had directed the home and police department t o t ake action against police personnel responsible for multiple lapses in the Pehlu Khan investigation.
On August 14, Alwar’s additional district j udge Sarita Swami acquitted the six accused in Pehlu Khan lynching case and gave them the “benefit of doubt” after which the state government had taken a decision to file an appeal against the verdict.
The court acquitted the six accused -- Vipin Yadav, 19, Ravindra Yadav, 29, Kalu Ram Yadav, 44, Dayanand Yadav, 47, Yogesh Khati, 30, and Bhim Rathi, 28 -- and explained why the prosecution’s case didn’t work.
On August 17, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was also set up by the state government to look into the reasons behind the acquittal of the six suspects. The SIT in its report cited multiple lapses in the police probe and blamed officers for a “shoddy” investigation. The 82-page report pointed out loopholes by each of the four investigating officers.
On April 1, 2017, Khan was attacked by a mob on the DelhiJaipur highway near Behror in Rajasthan’s Alwar district while he was transporting cattle from a market in Jaipur to his home in Nuh, Haryana. He named six people as his attackers in his dying declaration, but all of them were cleared by the police on the basis of call records and witnesses.
Police then charged a new set of nine people – three of them minors – on the basis of videos of the attack. The six adults were cleared by the court but the government has said it will appeal the verdict in the high court. The trial of minors were held separately at a juvenile court.