The four persons convicted of lynching Haryana’s dairy farmer Rakbar Khan in Rajasthan’s Alwar district in 2018 did not intend to cause his death, though they had thrashed him brutally with lathis and sticks on the suspicion of smuggling of cows, the sessions court in Alwar has held. The court sentenced the convicts to seven years’ imprisonment on Thursday.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Sunil Kumar Goyal convicted the four persons — all residents of Lalawandi village — for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” under Section 304 and wrongful restraint under Section 341 (wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code. The court found that all the 13 injuries caused on the victim’s body were the result of collective beating by the convicts, but there was no injury on any of his sensitive organs.
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