The Supreme Court on Monday, September 10 agreed to hear a plea seeking to transfer the trial in the Alwar lynching case out of Rajasthan. The apex court will now hear the plea next week.
The victim's family, who had filed the plea, has also sought that the probe in the case should be monitored by the top court itself, according to a report published in The Indian Express.
The Rajasthan police had filed a chargesheet in the case last week in an Alwar court against the three accused who are under the arrest of the police. The accused, Dharmendra, Paramjeet and Naresh have been booked under IPC section 302 (murder), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 34 (act done by several persons in furtherance of common intention).
"There are three main accused, while investigation has been kept pending against another accused under CrPC section 173 (8). According to the chargesheet, the three have been charged under section 302 of IPC, among others. Their guilt is proved. These are the people who beat him up and that is why he died," the Indian Express quoted Ashok Chouhan, Deputy SP, Alwar as saying.
An angry mob of villagers had beaten 32-year-old Rakbar to death when he was transporting cows on foot in July and was suspected to be a cattle thief by the people.
